Parallel Verses English Standard Version Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. King James Bible Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. American Standard Version Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Douay-Rheims Bible Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. English Revised Version Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe design of God in the creation of the woman is perceived by Adam, as soon as he awakes, when the woman is brought to him by God. Without a revelation from God, he discovers in the woman "bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh." The words, "this is now (הפּעם lit., this time) bone of my bones," etc., are expressive of joyous astonishment at the suitable helpmate, whose relation to himself he describes in the words, "she shall be called Woman, for she is taken out of man." אשּׁה is well rendered by Luther, "Mnnin" (a female man), like the old Latin vira from vir. The words which follow, "therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh," are not to be regarded as Adam's, first on account of the על־כּן, which is always used in Genesis, with the exception of Genesis 20:6; Genesis 42:21, to introduce remarks of the writer, either of an archaeological or of a historical character, and secondly, because, even if Adam on seeing the woman had given prophetic utterance to his perception of the mystery of marriage, he could not with propriety have spoken of father and mother. They are the words of Moses, written to bring out the truth embodied in the fact recorded as a divinely appointed result, to exhibit marriage as the deepest corporeal and spiritual unity of man and woman, and to hold up monogamy before the eyes of the people of Israel as the form of marriage ordained by God. But as the words of Moses, they are the utterance of divine revelation; and Christ could quote them, therefore, as the word of God (Matthew 19:5). By the leaving of father and mother, which applies to the woman as well as to the man, the conjugal union is shown to be a spiritual oneness, a vital communion of heart as well as of body, in which it finds its consummation. This union is of a totally different nature from that of parents and children; hence marriage between parents and children is entirely opposed to the ordinance of God. Marriage itself, notwithstanding the fact that it demands the leaving of father and mother, is a holy appointment of God; hence celibacy is not a higher or holier state, and the relation of the sexes for a pure and holy man is a pure and holy relation. This is shown in Genesis 2:25 : "They were both naked ערוּמּים, with dagesh in the מ, is an abbreviated form of עירמּים Genesis 3:7, from עוּר to strip), the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Their bodies were sanctified by the spirit, which animated them. Shame entered first with sin, which destroyed the normal relation of the spirit to the body, exciting tendencies and lusts which warred against the soul, and turning the sacred ordinance of God into sensual impulses and the lust of the flesh. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge leave. cleave. Deuteronomy 4:4 But you that did join to the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. Joshua 23:8 But hold to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all... and they shall be one flesh. The LXX. Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, they two; as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages. Mark 10:6-12 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female... 1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house... Cross References Matthew 19:5 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? Mark 10:7 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, Mark 10:8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." Ephesians 5:31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 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