Genesis 2:24 Parallel Translations

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

DBY:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Genesis 2:24 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 19:5 and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH '?

Mark 10:7 "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,

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 the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."

Ephesians 5:31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:24 Therefore shall a man leave {p} his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
(p) So marriage requires a greater duty of us toward our wives, than otherwise we are bound to show to our parents.

WES:

2:24 The sabbath and marriage were two ordinances instituted in innocency, the former for the preservation of the church, the latter for the preservation of mankind. It appears by Mt 19:4,5, that it was God himself who said here, a man must leave all his relations to cleave to his wife; but whether he spake it by Moses or by Adam who spake, Ge 2:23 is uncertain: It should seem they are the words of Adam in God's name, laying down this law to all his posterity. The virtue of a divine ordinance, and the bonds of it, are stronger even than those of nature. See how necessary it is that children should take their parents consent with them in their marriage; and how unjust they are to their parents, as well as undutiful, if they marry without it; for they rob them of their right to them, and interest in them, and alienate it to another fraudulently and unnaturally.

MHC:

2:18-25 Power over the creatures was given to man, and as a proof of this he named them all. It also shows his insight into the works of God. But though he was lord of the creatures, yet nothing in this world was a help meet for man. From God are all our helpers. If we rest in God, he will work all for good. God caused deep sleep to fall on Adam; while he knows no sin, God will take care that he shall feel no pain. God, as her Father, brought the woman to the man, as his second self, and a help meet for him. That wife, who is of God's making by special grace, and of God's bringing by special providence, is likely to prove a help meet for a man. See what need there is, both of prudence and prayer in the choice of this relation, which is so near and so lasting. That had need to be well done, which is to be done for life. Our first parents needed no clothes for covering against cold or heat, for neither could hurt them: they needed none for ornament. Thus easy, thus happy, was man in his state of innocency. How good was God to him! How many favours did he load him with! How easy were the laws given to him! Yet man, being in honour, understood not his own interest, but soon became as the beasts that perish.

CONC:

Cause Cleave Cleaved Cleaves Flesh Join Joined Leave Leaves Reason United Wife

Cause Cleave Cleaved Cleaves Flesh Join Joined Leave Mother Reason United Wife

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