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Genesis 2:24

Genesis 2:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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and they shall be one flesh: The LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, "they two;" as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages. ; ; ; ; , , ; ; ; ;

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