His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'
And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'
Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.
And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;
`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am ;
forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,