Genesis 2:24
2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
Genesis 2:2
2:2 By
the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing,
and he ceased
on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
Genesis 3:2-5
3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat
of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
3:3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it,
or else you will die.’”
3:4 The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die,
3:5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open
and you will be like divine beings who know
good and evil.”
Genesis 3:1
The Temptation and the Fall
3:1 Now the serpent was more shrewd
than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”
Genesis 11:1-4
The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel
11:1 The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
11:2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
Nehemiah 13:26
13:26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made
him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
Malachi 2:15
2:15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this.
What did our ancestor
do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
Matthew 19:5
19:5 and said, ‘
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?