King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 19:7
“They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”
Verse in context — Matthew 19
‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›
‹Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
He saith unto them, ‹Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.›
‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›
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