1. And it happened that, when Jesus had completed these words, he moved away from Galilee, and he arrived within the borders of Judea, across the Jordan.
2. And great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3. And the Pharisees approached him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to separate from his wife, no matter what the cause?"
4. And he said to them in response, "Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?" And he said:
5. "For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.
6. And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate."
7. They said to him, "Then why did Moses command him to give a bill of divorce, and to separate?"
8. He said to them: "Although Moses permitted you to separate from your wives, due to the hardness of your heart, it was not that way from the beginning.
9. And I say to you, that whoever will have separated from his wife, except because of fornication, and who will have married another, commits adultery, and whoever will have married her who has been separated, commits adultery."