4 They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."

5 "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied.

6 "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' [1]

7 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, [2]

8 and the two will become one flesh.' "So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."