4 He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined inseparably to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? [Gen 1:27; 2:24; Mark 10:7] 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate."