4 "Haven’t you read," he replied, "that he who created 19:4 Other mss read madethem in the beginning made them male and female, 19:4 Gn 2:18; Mt 21:16, 19:4 Gn 1:27; 5:25 and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 19:5 Gn 2:24; Mal 2:15; 1Co 6:16; Eph 5:31, 19:5 Gn 2:246 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate."
8 He told them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.9 I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery." 19:9 Other mss add Also whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery; Mt 5:32, 19:9 Mt 5:32; Lk 16:18