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

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Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

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and they call for Rebekah, and say unto her, 'Dost thou go with this man?' and she saith, 'I go.'

And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him, 'Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,

And they shall be one flesh

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

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on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'