3 He answered them, What did Moses command you?
4 They replied, Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away. [Deut. 24:1-4.]
5 But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this precept in your Law.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. [Gen. 1:27; 5:2.]
7 For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,
8 And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]
9 What therefore God has united (joined together), let not man separate or divide.