Matthew 19:5-7

J.B. Phillips New Testament

^4-6 “Haven’t you read,” he answered, “that the one who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female’ and said: ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two separate people but one. No man therefore must separate what God has joined together.”

⁷ “Then why,” they retorted, “did Moses command us to give a written divorce-notice and dismiss the woman?”