Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

עַל־כֵּן֙ יַֽעֲזָב־אִ֔ישׁ אֶת־אָבִ֖יו וְאֶת־אִמֹּ֑ו וְדָבַ֣ק בְּאִשְׁתֹּ֔ו וְהָי֖וּ לְבָשָׂ֥ר אֶחָֽד׃

Genesis 2:24

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Marriage Men and women

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Genesis The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 2:24).

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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The kingdom of God is within you.

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Luke 17:21

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 17:21).

Another quote originally in Hebrew

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:16-17

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Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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The Holy Bible: New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Genesis 2:16-17).