⁸ He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

¹³ And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

¹⁴ But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

⁵ But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

¹⁵ But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

¹² And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

²⁴ For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

⁶ But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

³¹ And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.