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What does Mark 10:5 mean?

"But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment."

— Mark 10:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

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He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

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They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

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But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

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But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

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For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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