And rising up from thence, he cometh into the coast of Judea beyond the Jordan: and the multitude flocked to him again. And as he was accustomed, he taught them again.

²And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

³But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?

⁴Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

⁵To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept.

⁶But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

⁷For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife.

⁸And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

⁹What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

¹⁰And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.

¹¹And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery against her.

¹²And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

¹³And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.

¹⁴Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁵Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it.

¹⁶And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.

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