Genesis 2:24

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Summary

Genesis 2:24

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

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Genesis 24:58

Genesis 31:14

Psalm 45:10

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

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And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "[Is there] yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?

Hear, O daughter, and {discern} and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

And they shall be one flesh

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

And Pharisees came up to him [in order to] test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

But from the beginning of creation 'he made them male and female.

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

Therefore I want younger [widows] to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

General references

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."