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St Matthew 19:7-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?

8. He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

9. And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

10. His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.

11. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.

12. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.

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