1. And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan,
2. and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3. 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. 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. 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. so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'
7. They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'
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.
9. `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.'