But from the beginning(A) of creation(B) God[a] made them male and female.(C)[b]

For this reason a man will leave(D)
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],[c]
and the two will become one flesh.(E)[d]

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 Other mss omit God
  2. Mark 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2
  3. Mark 10:7 Other mss omit bracketed text
  4. Mark 10:8 Gn 2:24

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