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

Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof by the question, "Has a man a right to divorce his wife whenever he chooses?"

but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

General references

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."