He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.
And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”
But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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