4 "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and send the woman away,"*10:4. See Deuteronomy 24:1. they replied.

5 Then Jesus told them, "Moses only wrote down this rule for you because of your hard-hearted attitude. 6 However, in the beginning, from creation, God made male and female. 7 That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined in marriage to his wife, 8 and the two become one body. They are no longer two but one.*10:8. See Genesis 2:24. 9 Let no one separate what God has joined together."