Devine Scripture

Genesis 2:24

Genesis chapter 2 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

v.24This passage

v.25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:10

    But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

  • Romans 7:2

    For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • Leviticus 22:12

    And if a priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

  • Mark 10:6

    But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

  • 1 Timothy 5:14

    I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

  • Deuteronomy 10:20

    Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.