Bible verse
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
Matthew 19:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 19.
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.
3 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.
KJV
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,
ASV
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
ERV
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he which made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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