24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.


In Context

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man."

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Genesis 2:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.