Mark - 10:8



8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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Explanation and meaning of Mark 10:8.

Differing Translations

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And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'
And these two shall be one in flesh. And so, they are now, not two, but one flesh.
and the man and his wife will become one;' so that they are no longer two, but one.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And the twain shall be one flesh,.... This is the remaining part of the citation out of Genesis 2:24; See Gill on Matthew 19:5;
so then they are no more twain; but one flesh; as Adam and Eve were both by creation and marriage: and so two persons, a man and woman, being lawfully married together, become one flesh, or "one body", as the Arabic and Persic versions render the phrase; and therefore the wife is to be loved by the husband as his own body, and from whom there should be no separation, until death, but in case of adultery; See Gill on Matthew 19:6.

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