“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?”
And said: therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. The Genesis 2:24 quotation establishes the covenant of marriage as the creation of a new unity: two become one flesh. The leaving of father and mother and the cleaving to the wife are the two movements that constitute the marital covenant. The one-flesh union that results is the creation's vision of marriage's completeness.
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