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Mark 10:5

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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10:4 They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her."

10:5 And Jesus answered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, God "made them male and female.'

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