Genesis 2:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Psalm 45:10

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 2:17

Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

Proverbs 31:10

A virtuous woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Acts 11:23

who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:

Romans 7:2

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Deuteronomy 10:20

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.

Deuteronomy 4:4

But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Joshua 23:8

but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.