4 They said, "Moses allowed a manto write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." [Deut 24:1-4] 5 But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of hearts [your callousness and insensitivity toward your wives and the *10:5 God provided for divorce under certain circumstances, but the Pharisees expanded the reasons for divorce and abused God’s provision.provision of God] he wrote you this precept.6 But from the beginning of creation Godmade them male and female. [Gen 1:27; 5:2] 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother [to establish a home with his wife], [Matt 19:5] 8 and the two shall become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but [are united as] one flesh. [Gen 2:24] 9 Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce]."