And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

“What did Moses command you?” He replied.

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

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

However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

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

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

When they were back inside the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”