Matthew 19:4-8 He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,

Anderson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female, ⁵ and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh? ⁶ So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder. ⁷ They said to him: Why, then, did Moses command us to give a bill of divorce and put her away? ⁸ He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so.