And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
These words were pronounced by Adam. Genesis ii. 24.
And they two shall be in one flesh. I translate thus with submission to better judges; yet the sense may be, by a kind of Hebraism, they shall be esteemed as one person. (Witham)