Genesis 2:24

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Summary

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.

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

And they shall be one flesh

Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said: "Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?"

But, at the beginning of the Creation, God 'made them male and female.'

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

Therefore I advise young widows to marry, bear children, and attend to their homes, and so avoid giving the enemy an opportunity for scandal.

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,

General references

'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,

'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.'