⁸ 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.

¹³ And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

¹⁴ And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

⁵ And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

¹⁵ But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

¹² And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

⁸ Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁷ And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

²⁴ therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

³¹ and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'