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

Then responded Rachel and Leah, and said to him, - Have we any longer a portion or an inheritance in the house of our father?

Hearken, O daughter, and observe, Incline also thine ear, Forget, then, thine own people, And the house of thy father;

And they shall be one flesh

Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.

And there came unto him Pharisees, testing him, and saying, - Whether is it allowed a man to divorce his wife, for every cause?

But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he them;

For, the married woman, unto her living husband is bound by law; but, if her husband have died, she hath received a full release from the law of her husband.

Or know ye not that, he that joineth himself unto the harlot, is, one body? For, saith he, the two, shall become, one flesh;

But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

So, ought the husbands also to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, - he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

I am minded, therefore, that, the younger ones, marry, bear children, be mistress of the house, - giving, no single occasion, unto the opposer, as a cause, of reviling;

In like manner, ye wives, - submitting yourselves unto your own husbands; in order that, if any are not yielding unto the word, through their wives behaviour, they may, without the word, be won,

General references

For this cause, shall a man leave behind his father and mother,

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall become, one flesh.