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Matthew 19:7

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

"Why, then," they said, "did Moses direct that a man should 'serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her'?"

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Her husband, Joseph, was a religious man and, being unwilling to expose her to contempt, resolved to put an end to their betrothal privately.

So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate."

"Moses, owing to the hardness of your hearts," answered Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives, but that was not so at the beginning.

It was also said--'Let any one who divorces his wife serve her with a notice of separation.'

"Moses," they said, "permitted a man to 'draw up in writing a notice of separation and divorce his wife.'"