Matthew 19:2-7

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² Large crowds followed him, and he healed them^(A) there.

³ Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife^(B) for any and every reason?”

⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^{[a](C) 5} and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[b]?^{(D) 6} So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

⁷ “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”^(E)