Genesis 2:24
therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
25And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
Cross References
Genesis 31:14And Rachel answereth — Leah also — and saith to him, 'Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
Deuteronomy 4:4and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.
Joshua 23:8but to Jehovah your God ye do cleave, as ye have done till this day.
Psalms 45:10Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,
Proverbs 31:10A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies [is] her price.
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 →