Genesis 2:24

Because of that God left us this track/pattern of behaviour. A/the man will leave mother and father and they will become one, he and his own wife. Truly those two will be one.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Then the man said, “At last! This one is like me! He made her from my body. Her name is 'Woman'.”

25At the water-hole Eden that couple, Adam and his wife, were staying naked, they stayed well, naked, those two, without shame.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:14Rachel and Leah listened to Jacob's word. They replied, “Our father will not give us anything from his.

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 →

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