^{3 Ref} And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

^{4 Ref} And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,

^{5 Ref} and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

^{6 Ref} so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

^{7 Ref} They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

^{8 Ref} He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

^{9 Ref} `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'