Matthew 19:5

And he said: For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

In Context

4And he answered and said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them a male and a female?

6Wherefore they were not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath united, let not man sunder.

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Cross References

Mark 10:5Jesus answered and said to them: On account of the hardness of your heart, Moses wrote you this precept.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 19:4-13

The Law of Divorce. 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put… Read the whole commentary →

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