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 will call to Rebekah, and will say to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she will say, I will go.

And Rachel will answer, and Leah, and they will say to him, Is yet to us a portion and inheritance in our father's house?

Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house;

And they shall be one flesh

And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause

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

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.

Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself.

I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach.

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;

General references

For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife;

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.