Genesis 2:24 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּן֙	ken	-fore	H3651 →
יַֽעֲזָב־	ya.'a.zov-	he leaves	H5800 →
אִ֔ישׁ	'Ish	a man	H376 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אָבִ֖יו	'a.Viv	father his	H1 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אִמּ֑וֹ	'i.Mo	mother his	H517 →
וְדָבַ֣ק	ve.da.Vak	and he cleaves	H1692 →
בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ	be.'ish.To	to wife his	H802 →
וְהָי֖וּ	ve.ha.Yu	and they become	H1961 →
לְבָשָׂ֥ר	le.va.Sar	<into> flesh	H1320 →
אֶחָֽד׃	'e.Chad	one	H259 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk4

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 7:2
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
leads to
- Genesis 2:23–24
  And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
  The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:39
  A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
- Numbers 30:7–8
  and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Matthew 19:3–9Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.Ephesians 5:28–31In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.Mark 10:6–12However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her Romans 7:2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.1 Peter 3:1–7Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives 1 Corinthians 7:2–4But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.1 Corinthians 6:16–17Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”Mark 10:7‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,Ephesians 5:31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”Malachi 2:14–16Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.Proverbs 31:10A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.1 Corinthians 6:16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”1 Corinthians 7:10–11To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.Mark 10:8and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.Proverbs 12:4A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.Leviticus 22:12–13If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

A picture of Christ
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)
Bookends: the same words open and close
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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