en_tn_lite_do_not_use/gen/02/24.md

# General Information:

What follows is written by the author. The man did not say these things.

# Therefore a man

"That is why a man"

# a man will leave his father and his mother

"a man will stop living in his father and mother's home." This is about men in general. It does not refer to any particular man at any particular time.

# they will become one flesh

This idiom speaks of sexual activity as though the bodies that are together become one body. Alternate translation: "their two bodies will become one body" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])