4 And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said to them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate.