Matthew 19:8

He said to them, Musha, on account of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to send away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

In Context

7They said to him, Why then did Musha direct that he should give a writing of dismissal and send her away?

9And I say to you that whosoever shall forsake his wife who is not adulterous, and take another, committeth adultery; and whosoever taketh the deserted one, committeth adultery.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:31Those demons, therefore, supplicated from him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.

1 Corinthians 7:6But this I speak as to the infirm; (and) not from commandment.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 19:4-13

The Law of Divorce. 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put… Read the whole commentary →

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