4 And he said to them in response, 'Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?' And he said:
5 'For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.
6 And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.'
7 They said to him, 'Then why did Moses command him to give a bill of divorce, and to separate?'
8 He said to them: 'Although Moses permitted you to separate from your wives, due to the hardness of your heart, it was not that way from the beginning.
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