Genesis 2:24

In 11 translations

BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.LXX and the two will become one flesh; cited in Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7–8, 1 Corinthians 6:16, and Ephesians 5:31

KJV

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

WEB

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

ASV

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

LSV

therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.

YLT

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

DBY

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

DRC

Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

GNV

Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

JPS

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

LXXE

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Gr. be cemented. Mat. 19. 5.

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WLC

עַל־כֵּן֙ יַֽעֲזָב־אִ֔ישׁ אֶת־אָבִ֖יו וְאֶת־אִמּ֑וֹ וְדָבַ֣ק בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וְהָי֖וּ לְבָשָׂ֥ר אֶחָֽד׃

LXX-Br

Ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν.

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• Adam and Eve: the garden and the fall God places the man in Eden and forbids him to eat from one tree. A serpent challenges the death warning; the woman and her husband eat, blam…

Cross-references most cited first

• Matthew 19:3–9Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and…
• Ephesians 5:28–31In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.…
• Mark 10:6–12However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer…
• Romans 7:2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
• 1 Peter 3:1–7Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see your pure and reverent…
• 1 Corinthians 7:2–4But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife…
• 1 Corinthians 6:16–17Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
• Malachi 2:14–16Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Has not the LORD made…
• Proverbs 31:10A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
• 1 Corinthians 7:10–11To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his…
• Proverbs 12:4A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
• Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
• Leviticus 22:12–13If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions. But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s…
• 1 Timothy 5:14So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
• Genesis 24:58–59They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied. So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
• Deuteronomy 4:4But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

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