¹⁹ Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

²⁴ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(A)

⁸ He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’^{(A) 5} and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?^{(B) 6} So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”^(A)