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Source language
Original Greek   
⸀Καὶ ⸀ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν εἰ ἔξεστιν ἀνδρὶ γυναῖκα ἀπολῦσαι, πειράζοντες αὐτόν.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
rKai reperoton auton ei exestin andri gunaika apolusai, peirazontes auton.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
et accedentes Pharisaei interrogabant eum si licet viro uxorem dimittere temptantes eum

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? testing him.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Authorized (King James) Version   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
New King James Version   
The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
21st Century King James Version   
And the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?” — testing Him.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And Pharisees approached, tempting him, and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Darby Bible Translation   
And Pharisees coming to him asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? (tempting him).
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And the Pharisees coming to him asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
God's Word   
Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, "Can a husband divorce his wife?"
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
International Standard Version   
Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
NET Bible   
Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
New American Standard Bible   
Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.
New International Version   
Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
New Living Translation   
Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: "Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?"
Webster's Bible Translation   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Weymouth New Testament   
Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"
The World English Bible   
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
EasyEnglish Bible   
Some Pharisees came to Jesus. They wanted to find out how he would answer their question. They asked him, ‘Can a man send his wife away, so that she is no longer his wife? Is it right for him to do that?’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,
New Life Version   
The proud religious law-keepers came to Him. They tried to trap Him and asked, “Does the Law say a man can divorce his wife?”
Revised Geneva Translation   
Then the Pharisees came, and asked Him if it were lawful for a man to divorce his wife and tempted Him.
The Voice Bible   
Some Pharisees came to Him to test Him on His adherence to the law of Moses. Pharisees: Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?
Living Bible   
Some Pharisees came and asked him, “Do you permit divorce?” Of course they were trying to trap him.
New Catholic Bible   
Some Pharisees came forward and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Legacy Standard Bible   
And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
And the Pharisees came to him and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Christian Standard Bible   
Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Amplified Bible © 1954   
And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?
New Century Version   
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”
The Message   
From there he went to the area of Judea across the Jordan. A crowd of people, as was so often the case, went along, and he, as he so often did, taught them. Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, “Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Some Pharisees came to test him and asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
And Pharisees came up and asked him if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
New Matthew Bible   
And the Pharisees came and asked him a question, whether it was lawful for a man to put away his wife, in order to prove him.
Good News Translation®   
Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him. “Tell us,” they asked, “does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife?”
Wycliffe Bible   
And the Pharisees came, and asked him, Whether it be leaveful to a man to leave his wife? and they tempted him.
New Testament for Everyone   
Some Pharisees approached him with a question. “Is it permitted,” they asked, “for a man to divorce his wife?” They said this to trap him.
Contemporary English Version   
Some Pharisees wanted to test Jesus. So they came up to him and asked if it was right for a man to divorce his wife.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Then he got up and left Galilee and went off to the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Again great crowds assembled to meet him, and again, according to his custom, he taught them. Then some Pharisees arrived to ask him this test-question. “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Some, testing him, asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’
Common English Bible © 2011   
Some Pharisees came and, trying to test him, they asked, “Does the Law allow a man to divorce his wife?”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Pharisees came to Jesus to test Him [intending to trick Him into saying something wrong], and asked Him, “Is it lawful [according to Scripture] for a man to divorce his wife and send her away?”
English Standard Version Anglicised   
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The Pharisees approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing him.
New American Standard Bible   
And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began questioning Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife.
The Expanded Bible   
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to ·trick [test; trap] him. They asked, “Is it ·right [lawful; C according to the law of Moses] for a man to divorce his wife?”
Tree of Life Version   
Pharisees came up, and to test Him they began asking, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife?”
Revised Standard Version   
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
New International Reader's Version   
Some Pharisees came to test Jesus. They asked, “Does the Law allow a man to divorce his wife?”
BRG Bible   
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Some P’rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, “Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?”
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
The Pharisees came to him and asked, `Is it right for a man to send his wife away from him?' They asked this to test Jesus.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And, having approached, the Perushim, testing him, were asking him, Is it mutar for a man to give a get (divorce) to his wife?
Names of God Bible   
Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, “Can a husband divorce his wife?”
Modern English Version   
The Pharisees came to test Him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Easy-to-Read Version   
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to make him say something wrong. They asked him, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”
International Children’s Bible   
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”
Lexham English Bible   
And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him.
New International Version - UK   
Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’
Disciples Literal New Testament   
And Pharisees having come to Him were asking Him if it is lawful for a husband to send-away a wife— testing Him.