Genesis 2:24 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 2:24

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

YLT

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

DBT

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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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Cross-references

38 verses on the floor

Matthew 19:3–9
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?
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:28–31
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Mark 10:6–12
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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(2.) The commencement of the kingdom of grace, in the sanctification of the sabbath day, ver. 3. He rested on that day, and took a complacency in his creatures, and then sanctified it, and appointed us on that day to rest and take a complacency in the Creator; and his rest is in the fourth commandment made a reason for ours after six days labour.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

The sabbath and marriage were two ordinances instituted in innocency, the former for the preservation of the church, the latter for the preservation of the world of mankind. It appears (by Matt. xix. 4, 5 ) that it was God himself who said here, "A man must leave all his relations, to cleave to his wife;" but whether he spoke it by Moses, the penman, or by Adam (who spoke,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thus Adam appears as a creature formed after the image of God--showing his knowledge by giving names to the animals, his righteousness by his approval of the marriage relation, and his holiness by his principles and feelings, and finding gratification in the service and enjoyment of God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It appears by Matt. xix, 4, 5, that it was God himself who said here, a man must leave all his relations to cleave to his wife; but whether he spake it by Moses or by Adam who spake, ver. 23 is uncertain: It should seem they are the words of Adam in God's name, laying down this law to all his posterity.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Where this verse connects

Typology Ephesians 5:31–32
Paul quotes the one-flesh word over Adam and Eve and names it 'a great mystery... concerning Christ and the church.'
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)
Inclusio Revelation 22:17
'The Spirit and the bride say, Come' closes the arc the Eden wedding opened; the canon's frame is a marriage (Eden wedding -> wedding of the Lamb). Mirror Row 6.
MT-ASV; G3565

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Quoted in MAT 19:5
'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife'
Quoted in MRK 10:7
'they twain shall be one flesh'
Quoted in 1CO 6:16
'The twain shall be one flesh' (against joining a harlot)
Quoted in EPH 5:31
'They two shall be one flesh' (marriage as Christ and the church)

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H169254× in canon H5800215× in canon H517220× in canon H1320270× in canon

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