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

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And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto 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, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.