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 sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

And they shall be one flesh

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

But from the first, male and female made he them.

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

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For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.