Matthew 19:4-6

19:4 He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, ¹  19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ²  19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Matthew 19:8

19:8 Jesus ³  said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, ⁴  but from the beginning it was not this way.

¹ sn A quotation from Gen 1:27; 5:2.

² sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.

³ tc A few important mss (א Φ pc) have the name “Jesus” here, but it is probably not original. Nevertheless, this translation routinely specifies the referents of pronouns to improve clarity, so that has been done here.

⁴ tn Grk “heart” (a collective singular).