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Gen. 2:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore shall a man leaved his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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Mark 10:7• ⁷For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife; (Mark 10:7)

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Gen. 24:58‑59• ⁵⁸And they called Rebekah and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
⁵⁹And they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. (Gen. 24:58‑59)

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Gen. 31:14‑15• ¹⁴And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
¹⁵Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money. (Gen. 31:14‑15)

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Psa. 45:10• ¹⁰Hear, Ο daughter, and see, and incline thine ear,{HR}And forget thy people and thy father's house. (Psa. 45:10)

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Lev. 22:12‑13• ¹²If the priest's daughter also belong to a strange man, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
¹³But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat of it. (Lev. 22:12‑13)

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Deut. 4:4• ⁴But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day. (Deut. 4:4)

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Deut. 10:20• ²⁰{i}Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him thou shalt serve, and unto him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.{/i} (Deut. 10:20)

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Josh. 23:8• ⁸{i}but ye shall cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done unto this day.{/i} (Josh. 23:8)

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Psa. 45:10• ¹⁰Hear, Ο daughter, and see, and incline thine ear,{HR}And forget thy people and thy father's house. (Psa. 45:10)

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Prov. 12:4• ⁴A woman of worth [is] a crown to her husband,{HR}But she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. (Prov. 12:4)

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Prov. 31:10• ¹⁰{i}Who can find a woman of worth?{HR}For her price is far above rubies.{/i} (Prov. 31:10)

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Acts 11:23• ²³who on arriving and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide by the Lord. (Acts 11:23)

and they shall be one flesh.The LXX., Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, "they two;" as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages.

Mal. 2:14‑16• ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
¹⁵And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
¹⁶For Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith he hateth putting away; for one covereth violence with his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. (Mal. 2:14‑16)

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Matt. 19:3‑9• ³{i}And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?{/i}
⁴And He answered and said, Have ye not read that He that made from the beginning made them male and female,
⁵and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
⁶So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.
⁷They say to Him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce and to put away?
⁸He saith to them, Moses for your hardness of heart allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it had not been thus.
⁹But I say to you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and he that marrieth one put away committeth adultery. (Matt. 19:3‑9)

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Mark 10:6‑12• ⁶But from [the] beginning of [the] creation God made them male and female.
⁷For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife;
⁸and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
⁹What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
¹⁰{i}And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.{/i}
¹¹{i}And he says to them,{/i} Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her;
¹²and if a woman put away her husband and marry another, she committeth adultery. (Mark 10:6‑12)

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Rom. 7:2• ²For the married woman is bound to the living husband by law; but if the husband die, she is quit from the law of her husband. (Rom. 7:2)

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1 Cor. 6:16‑17• ¹⁶What! know ye not that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? For, saith he, the two [shall be] one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (1 Cor. 6:16‑17)

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1 Cor. 7:2‑4,10• ²but on account of fornications let each have his own wife and each have her own husband.
³To the wife let the husband render her due, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
⁴The wife hath not authority over her own body, but the husband; and likewise, also the husband hath not authority over his own body, but the wife.
¹⁰But to the married not I enjoin but the Lord, that wife be not separated from husband (1 Cor. 7:2‑4,10)

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1 Cor. 7:11• ¹¹(but if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and that husband leave not wife. (1 Cor. 7:11)

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Eph. 5:28‑31• ²⁸Thus ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his own wife loveth himself,
²⁹for no one ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Christ also the assembly:
³⁰for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
³¹Because of this shall a man leave father and mother and shall be closely joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (Eph. 5:28‑31)

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1 Tim. 5:14• ¹⁴I wish therefore that the younger marry, bear children, rule the house, give none occasion to the adversary for railing; (1 Tim. 5:14)

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1 Peter 3:1‑7• ¹Likewise, ye wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without word through the behaviour of the wives,
²having beheld your chaste behaviour in fear;
³whose adornment let it not be the outward one of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel,
⁴but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God very precious.
⁵For thus also heretofore the holy women that hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
⁶as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became doing good and not being afraid of any dismay.
⁷Ye husbands, likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, awarding honour as to a weaker vessel(the female, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. (1 Peter 3:1‑7)

• What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate (Matt. 19:3-8). It is not Adam who so said, but God. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 2:24-25” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one fleshl.

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Lit. "to one flesh."

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall becomea one flesh.

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(be for)