World English Bible
Matthew 19:7
“They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
Verse in context — Matthew 19
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and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart.
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They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?
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He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.
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