1. AND rising up from thence, he cometh into the coasts of Judea beyond the Jordan: and the multitudes flock to him again. And as he was accustomed, he taught them again.
2. And the Pharisees coming to him asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
3. But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?
4. Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away.
5. To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept.
6. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
7. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.
8. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.