^{2 Ref} Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

^{3 Ref} He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

^{4 Ref} They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

^{5 Ref} But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

^{6 Ref} But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

^{7 Ref} For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

^{8 Ref} and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

^{9 Ref} What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."