⁸ 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.

¹³ This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

¹⁴ Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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

¹⁵ But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

¹² Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.

¹⁶ Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].

⁸ Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

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

²⁴ Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

⁶ But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

³¹ The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."