Mark 10:6

[dreamer_easy]

I have a question (for the knowledgeable this time, thank you, rather than for the peanut gallery :-) about this verse:

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. (KJV)

(Did you see what I did there?)

The context is Jesus' teaching on divorce, but I was wondering if this reference to Genesis is the one synaesthete7 mentioned a while back, and if so, if it's a paraphrase of Chapter 1. (I'm curious about how Biblical literalists reconcile Chapters 1 and 2 - again, another issue which must have engaged great minds for centuries.)

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[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, I think purplepooka is right, tongue-in-cheek or not: it seems very unlikely to me that a redactor, if such a person had existed, would have failed to smooth over the very first two books of the Bible!