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Genesis 24 Essay

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The old testament in Genesis 2:24, which states, “for this reason a man will leave his father & mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh”

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Our job to respect our neighbors is one of the commands that God gives. The foundation in which the family is based on, which is to be faithful. Marriage, according to the original institution, made the husband and wife "one flesh" (Genesis 2:24); and to break this sacramental union was a crime. Adulterers and man were in most ancient nations liable to be punished with death by the injured husband; but the adultery of a married man with an unmarried woman was thought lightly. The precept of the Decalogue binds both man and woman equally.
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