Genesis Chapter 2 verse 24 Holy Bible
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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For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
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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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
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Genesis 2 : 24 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. There is nothing in the use of such terms as father and mother, or in the fact that the sentiment is prophetic, to prevent the words from being regarded as a continuation of Adam's speech, although, on the other hand, the statement of Christ (Matthew 19:5) does not preclude the possibility of Moses being their author; but whether uttered by the first husband (Delitzsch, Macdonald) or by the historian (Calvin, Murphy), they must be viewed as an inspired declaration of the law of marriage. Its basis (fundamental reason and predisposing cause) they affirm to be (1) the original relationship of man and woman, on the platform of creation; and (2) the marriage union effected between the first pair. Its nature they explain to be (1) a forsaking (on the part of the woman as well as the man) of father and mother - not filially, in respect of duty, but locally, in respect of habitation, and comparatively, in respect of affection; and . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Therefore shall a man leave . . . --These are evidently the words of the narrator. Adam names this new product of creative power, as he had named others, but he knew nothing about young men leaving their father's house for the wife's sake. Moreover, in Matthew 19:5, our Lord quotes these words as spoken by God, and the simplest interpretation of this declaration is that the inspired narrator was moved by the Spirit of God to give this solemn sanction to marriage, founded upon Adam's words. The great and primary object of this part of the narrative is to set forth marriage as a Divine ordinance. The narrator describes Adam's want, pictures him as examining all animal life, and studying the habits of all creatures so carefully as to be able to give them names, but as returning from his search unsatisfied. At last one is solemnly brought to him who is his counterpart, and he calls her Ishah, his feminine self, and pronounces her to be his very bone and flesh. Upon this, "He who at the beginning made them male and female "pronounced the Divine marriage law that man and wife are one flesh.
