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Source language
Original Greek   
ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα ⸂καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ⸃,
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
eneken toutou kataleipsei anthropos ton patera autou kai ten metera [?]kai proskollethesetai pros ten gunaika autou[?],

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
propter hoc relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem et adherebit ad uxorem suam

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and join to his wife;
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Authorized (King James) Version   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
New King James Version   
‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
21st Century King James Version   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife,

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
“Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife.”
Darby Bible Translation   
For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
God's Word   
That's why a man will leave his father and mother and will remain united with his wife,
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
International Standard Version   
That's why 'a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,
NET Bible   
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
New American Standard Bible   
"FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,
New International Version   
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
New Living Translation   
'This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,
Webster's Bible Translation   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Weymouth New Testament   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,
The World English Bible   
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
EasyEnglish Bible   
That is the reason that a man leaves his father and his mother. Then God joins him and his wife together.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
New Life Version   
Because of this, a man is to leave his father and mother and is to live with his wife.
Revised Geneva Translation   
“‘For this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and cling to his wife.
The Voice Bible   
As it is written in the Hebrew Scriptures, “For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother [to marry his wife],
Living Bible   
But it certainly isn’t God’s way. For from the very first he made man and woman to be joined together permanently in marriage; therefore a man is to leave his father and mother,
New Catholic Bible   
‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,
Legacy Standard Bible   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall join to his wife;
Christian Standard Bible   
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,
New Century Version   
‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,
The Message   
Jesus said, “Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways. In the original creation, God made male and female to be together. Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage he becomes one flesh with a woman—no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
‘For this reason a man shall leave · his father and · mother and be joined to · his wife,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
New Matthew Bible   
And for the sake of this, a man must leave his father and mother and abide by his wife,
Good News Translation®   
‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,
Wycliffe Bible   
and said, For this thing a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall draw to his wife [and shall cleave to his wife],
New Testament for Everyone   
and that’s why the man must leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife;
Contemporary English Version   
That's why a man leaves his father and mother and gets married.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
“Moses gave you that commandment,” returned Jesus, “because you know so little of the meaning of love. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female’. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’. So that in body they are no longer two people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Common English Bible © 2011   
Because of this, a man should leave his father and mother and be joined together with his wife,
Amplified Bible © 2015   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother [to establish a home with his wife],
English Standard Version Anglicised   
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife],
New American Standard Bible   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,
The Expanded Bible   
‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be ·united with [joined to] his wife,
Tree of Life Version   
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Revised Standard Version   
‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
New International Reader's Version   
‘That’s why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.
BRG Bible   
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Complete Jewish Bible   
For this reason, a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
That is why a man must leave his father and mother and stay with his wife.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
AL KEN YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV VES IMMO VDAVAK BISHTO
Names of God Bible   
That’s why a man will leave his father and mother and will remain united with his wife,
Modern English Version   
‘For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife,
Easy-to-Read Version   
‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.
International Children’s Bible   
‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife.
Lexham English Bible   
Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,
New International Version - UK   
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Disciples Literal New Testament   
‘For this reason, a man will leave-behind his father and mother and will be joined to his wife.