Matthew 19:5-8 and said, "For this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and adhere to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ and said, "For this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and adhere to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." ⁶ Wherefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, then, God has conjoined, let not man separate. ⁷ They replied, Why, then, did Moses command to give a writing of divorce, and dismiss her? ⁸ He answered, Moses, indeed, because of your intractable disposition, permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not so from the beginning.