1. And rising up from there He came into the borders of Yehuḏah by the other side of the Yardĕn. And crowds gathered to Him again, and as He usually did, He was teaching them again.
2. And Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it right for a man to put away his wife?” – trying Him.
3. And He answering, said to them, “What did Mosheh command you?”
4. And they said, “Mosheh allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”
5. And יהושע said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this command.
6. “However, from the beginning of the creation, Elohim ‘made them male and female.’
7. ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife,
8. and the two shall become one flesh,’ so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9. “Therefore what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.”
10. And in the house His taught ones asked Him about this again.
11. And He said to them, “Whoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12. “And if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”