4"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'


In Context

1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.

2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"

4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'

5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ?

6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Matthew 19:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he which made them from the beginning made them male and female,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answered and said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made them, at the beginning made them male and female,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4He answered, |Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,