[10:1] Then Jesus left that place, went to the province of Judea, and crossed the Jordan River. Crowds came flocking to him again, and he taught them, as he always did.
[10:2] Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him. “Tell us,” they asked, “does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife?”
[10:3] Jesus answered with a question, “What law did Moses give you?”
[10:4] Their answer was, “Moses gave permission for a man to write a divorce notice and send his wife away.”
[10:5] Jesus said to them, “Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach.
[10:6] But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,’ as the scripture says.
[10:7] ‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,
[10:8] and the two will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one.
[10:9] No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”
[10:10] When they went back into the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.
[10:11] He said to them, “A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his wife.
[10:12] In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery.”