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Mark 10:4
They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
Mark 10:4 · World English Bible
Mark 10:4 in other translations
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
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In context
1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
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