Genesis 2:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

New Living Translation
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

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.

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

New American Standard Bible
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

NASB 1995
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

NASB 1977
For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Amplified Bible
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Christian Standard Bible
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Contemporary English Version
That's why a man will leave his own father and mother. He marries a woman, and the two of them become like one person.

Good News Translation
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That is why a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh.

International Standard Version
(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

NET Bible
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
Classic Translations
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.

New King James Version
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

King James 2000 Bible
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

World English Bible
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

American King James Version
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to 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.

A Faithful Version
For this reason shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife--and they shall become one flesh.

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For this cause shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shalbe ioyned with his wyfe: and they shall become one fleshe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleue vnto his wife, & they two shalbe one flesh.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For this cause shall a man leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they shall be one flesh.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because of this, a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be the two of them one flesh.

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
















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