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Genesis 2

Gen. 2:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore
ken (Hebrew #3651)
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
KJV usage: + after that (this, -ward, -wards), as ... as, + (for-)asmuch as yet, + be (for which) cause, + following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), X the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, + there (where)-fore, this, thus, true, well, X you.
Pronounce: kane
Origin: from 3559
shall a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
leave
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
d his father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
and his mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
, and shall cleave
dabaq (Hebrew #1692)
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Pronounce: daw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
unto his wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
: and they shall be one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
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Mark 10:7• 7For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife, (Mark 10:7)

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Ministry on This Verse

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leave.
Gen. 24:58‑59• 58And they called Rebecca and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
 59And they sent away Rebecca their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. (Gen. 24:58‑59)
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Gen. 31:14‑15• 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
 15Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money. (Gen. 31:14‑15)
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Psa. 45:10• 10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house: (Psa. 45:10)
cleave.
Lev. 22:12‑13• 12And a priest's daughter who is married to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
 13But a priest's daughter that becometh a widow, or is divorced, and hath no seed, and returneth unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; but no stranger shall eat thereof. (Lev. 22:12‑13)
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Deut. 4:4• 4but ye that did cleave to Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day. (Deut. 4:4)
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Deut. 10:20• 20Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him thou shalt serve, and unto him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. (Deut. 10:20)
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Josh. 23:8• 8but ye shall cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done unto this day. (Josh. 23:8)
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Psa. 45:10• 10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house: (Psa. 45:10)
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Prov. 12:4• 4A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. (Prov. 12:4)
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Prov. 31:10• 10Who can find a woman of worth? for her price is far above rubies. (Prov. 31:10)
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Acts 11:23• 23who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord; (Acts 11:23)
and they shall be one flesh.The LXX., Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, "they two;" as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages.
Mal. 2:14‑16• 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
 15And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,
 16(for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully. (Mal. 2:14‑16)
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Matt. 19:3‑9• 3And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
 4But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,
 5and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?
 6so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
 7They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a letter of divorce and to send her away?
 8He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not thus.
 9But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery. (Matt. 19:3‑9)
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Mark 10:6‑12• 6but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 7For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
 8and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.
 9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
 10And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.
 11And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.
 12And if a woman put away her husband and shall marry another, she commits adultery. (Mark 10:6‑12)
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Rom. 7:2• 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband: (Rom. 7:2)
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1 Cor. 6:16‑17• 16Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
 17But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit. (1 Cor. 6:16‑17)
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1 Cor. 7:2‑4,10• 2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
 3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
 4The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
 10But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband; (1 Cor. 7:2‑4,10)
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1 Cor. 7:11• 11(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife. (1 Cor. 7:11)
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Eph. 5:28‑31• 28So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
 29For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:
 30for we are members of his body; we are of his flesh, and of his bones.
 31Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. (Eph. 5:28‑31)
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1 Tim. 5:14• 14I will therefore that the younger marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary in respect of reproach. (1 Tim. 5:14)
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1 Peter 3:1‑7• 1Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,
 2having witnessed your pure conversation carried out in fear;
 3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
 5For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
 6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.
 7Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. (1 Peter 3:1‑7)
• What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate (Matt. 19:3-8). It is not Adam who so said, but God. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 2:24-25” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "to one flesh."