But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. But from the beginning of creation ‘he made them male and female.[a] Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 A quotation from Gen 1:27; 5:2
  2. Mark 10:7 The earliest and most important manuscripts do not contain the phrase “and be joined to his wife”