“and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’Genesis 2:24”
— WEB
Matthew 19:5
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“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
— KJV
“and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?”
— ASV
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Commentary
And said, For this cause--to follow out this divine appointment. shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?--Jesus here sends them back to the original constitution of man as one pair, a male and a female; to their marriage, as such, by divine appointment; and to the purpose of God, expressed by the sacred historian, that in all time one man and one woman should by marriage become one flesh--so to continue as long as both are in the flesh. This being God's constitution, let not man break it up by causeless divorces.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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