Genesis 2:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [Matt. 19:5; I Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31-33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 2:24 Cross References

Genesis 4:19

Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Psalm 45:10

Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house,

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant,

Proverbs 31:10

A woman of strength who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Acts 11:23

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast devotion,

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

Deuteronomy 10:20

You shall fear the Lord your God; him you shall serve; to him you shall hold fast; and by his name you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 4:4

while those of you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

Joshua 23:8

but hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel; both of them became his wives.