He said to them,“ Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“因为摩西知道你们铁石心肠，所以才准你们休妻。但起初并不是这样。

他说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，才准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣对他们说：“摩西因着你们的心里刚硬，才准许你们休妻，但并不是从起初就这样的。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「因為摩西知道你們鐵石心腸，所以才准你們休妻。但起初並不是這樣。

他說：“摩西因為你們的心硬，才准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌對他們說：『是為着你們的硬心、摩西才准許離婚的；從起初卻不是這樣。

耶穌對他們說：「摩西因著你們的心裡剛硬，才准許你們休妻，但並不是從起初就這樣的。

曰、摩西以爾心頑、許爾出妻、但元始不然、

曰、摩西以爾心忍、容爾出妻、但元始不然、

曰、摩西因爾心忍、容爾出妻、但元始則不然、

對曰：『摩西以汝心如鐵石、姑容出妻、非自始已然。

Jesus replied,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

Jesus replied,“ Moses let you divorce your wives because you were stubborn. But it was not this way from the beginning.

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.

Jesus replied,“ Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended.

He told them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

He* said to them,“ Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

He told them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning.

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Jesus said to them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

He said to them,“ Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

And this is the second thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, With weeping and crying; So He does not regard the offering anymore, Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.Yet you say,“ For what reason?” Because the Lord has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant.

Thus says the Lord:“ Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said,‘ We will not walk in it.’

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

But Jesus answered and said to him,“ Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

“ Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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

So the demons begged Him, saying,“ If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”

But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.