Add parallel Print Page Options

But truly, God created humans male and female in the beginning.[a] As it is written in the Hebrew Scriptures, “For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother [to marry his wife],[b] and the two of them will become one flesh and blood.[c] So they are no longer two people, but one.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 10:6 Genesis 1:27; 5:2; the Hebrew name for the Book of Genesis is “In the beginning.”
  2. 10:7 Some of the earliest manuscripts omit this portion.
  3. 10:7–8 Genesis 2:24

Bible Gateway Recommends