They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 10:4 in context
Mark 10:1–7
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He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
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Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
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They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
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But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
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But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
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For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
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