In Context

2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, |Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?|

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

5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart.|

7 They asked him, |Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?|

Matthew 19:5 in Other Translations