Genesis 2:24
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.
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In Context
25And both of them are naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
Cross References
Genesis 31:14And Rachel answers—Leah also—and says to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
Deuteronomy 4:4and you who are cleaving to your God YHWH [are] alive today—all of you.
Joshua 23:8but you cleave to your God YHWH, as you have done until this day.
Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter, and see, incline your ear, || And forget your people, and your father’s house,
Proverbs 31:10[ALEPH-BET] A woman of worth who finds? Indeed, her price [is] far above rubies.
Matthew 19:3And 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?”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:22-25
The Formation of Eve; Marriage Instituted. ( b. c. 4004.) 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his… Read the whole commentary →