⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^[a](A)

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[a]?^(A)

²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives^(A) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.