24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united(A) to his wife, and they become one flesh.(B)

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

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and said, (A)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and (B)the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. (C)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

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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’[a]?(A) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24

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?

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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17 who forsakes (A)the companion of her youth
    and forgets (B)the covenant of her God;

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17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](A)

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  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God

17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

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