2. And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?
3. He answered them, What did Moses command you?
4. They replied, Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away. [Deut. 24:1-4.]
5. But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this precept in your Law.
6. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. [Gen. 1:27; 5:2.]
7. For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,