Genesis 2:24

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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 thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

And they shall be one flesh

Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?

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

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

General references

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife,

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.