Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to My law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by His Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

And these things which I hated, you did: you covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: [is it] right [for Me] to have respect for your sacrifice, or to receive [anything] from your hands as welcome?

Yet you said, For what reason? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

And Jesus answered and said to them, "In view of your hardheartedness he wrote this commandment for you.

But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.

So the demons implored Him, saying, "If You cast us out, permit us to go off into the herd of swine."

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

And then Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].