The two shall be one flesh
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ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσκολληθήσεται τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν.
The narrator's own comment, not Adam's — quoted by Jesus (Matt 19:5, Mark 10:7-8) and Paul (Eph 5:31, 1 Cor 6:16) as scripture's own definition of marriage. Swete's text has the man cleave τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ (dative, "to his wife"); Swete's own apparatus records a variant reading in codices D/E, agreeing with Brenton, that lacks the second αὐτοῦ and uses πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα instead.
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