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and that he said, ‘For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh’?[a] Thus they are no longer two, but one. So then, no one should split apart what God has joined together.”

They said to him, “Then why did Moshe give the commandment that a man should hand his wife a get and divorce her?”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:5 Genesis 2:24
  2. Matthew 19:7 Deuteronomy 24:1, 3

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