Matthew 19:7-9 They said to him, Why then did Musha direct that he should give a writing of dismissal and send her away?

Etheridge⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ They said to him, Why then did Musha direct that he should give a writing of dismissal and send her away? ⁸ He said to them, Musha, on account of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to send away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you that whosoever shall forsake his wife who is not adulterous, and take another, committeth adultery; and whosoever taketh the deserted one, committeth adultery.