Lexham English Bible

Matthew 19:2-7 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3. And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

4. And he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female

5. and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

6. So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

7. They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a document—a certificate of divorce—and to divorce her?”