Genesis 2:24
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 Standard Bible
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will 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.

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.

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Literal Standard Version
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.

Majority Standard 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 Bible
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.

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

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become 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.

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.

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.

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
23And 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.” 24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.…

Cross References
Matthew 19:5
and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and 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,

Mark 10:8
and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:16
Or 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."

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."

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.


Treasury of Scripture

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

leave.

Genesis 24:58,59
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go…

Genesis 31:14,15
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? …

Psalm 45:10
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

cleave.

Leviticus 22:12,13
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things…

Deuteronomy 4:4
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

Deuteronomy 10:20
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

and they shall be one flesh.

Malachi 2:14-16
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant…

Matthew 19:3-9
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? …

Mark 10:6-12
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female…

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Genesis 2
1. The first Sabbath.
4. Further details concerning the manner of creation.
8. The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;
15. man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge forbidden.
18. The animals are named by Adam.
21. The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.














(24) Therefore shall a man leave . . . --These are evidently the words of the narrator. Adam names this new product of creative power, as he had named others, but he knew nothing about young men leaving their father's house for the wife's sake. Moreover, in Matthew 19:5, our Lord quotes these words as spoken by God, and the simplest interpretation of this declaration is that the inspired narrator was moved by the Spirit of God to give this solemn sanction to marriage, founded upon Adam's words. The great and primary object of this part of the narrative is to set forth marriage as a Divine ordinance. The narrator describes Adam's want, pictures him as examining all animal life, and studying the habits of all creatures so carefully as to be able to give them names, but as returning from his search unsatisfied. At last one is solemnly brought to him who is his counterpart, and he calls her Ishah, his feminine self, and pronounces her to be his very bone and flesh. Upon this, "He who at the beginning made them male and female "pronounced the Divine marriage law that man and wife are one flesh.

Verse 24. - Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. There is nothing in the use of such terms as father and mother, or in the fact that the sentiment is prophetic, to prevent the words from being regarded as a continuation of Adam's speech, although, on the other hand, the statement of Christ (Matthew 19:5) does not preclude the possibility of Moses being their author; but whether uttered by the first husband (Delitzsch, Macdonald) or by the historian (Calvin, Murphy), they must be viewed as an inspired declaration of the law of marriage. Its basis (fundamental reason and predisposing cause) they affirm to be

(1) the original relationship of man and woman, on the platform of creation; and

(2) the marriage union effected between the first pair. Its nature they explain to be

(1) a forsaking (on the part of the woman as well as the man) of father and mother - not filially, in respect of duty, but locally, in respect of habitation, and comparatively, in respect of affection; and . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this reason
כֵּן֙ (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

a man
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

will leave
יַֽעֲזָב־ (ya·‘ă·zāḇ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

his father
אָבִ֖יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

his mother
אִמּ֑וֹ (’im·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

and
וְהָי֖וּ (wə·hā·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

be united
וְדָבַ֣ק (wə·ḏā·ḇaq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit

to his wife,
בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ (bə·’iš·tōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and they will become one
אֶחָֽד׃ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

flesh.
לְבָשָׂ֥ר (lə·ḇā·śār)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man


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