Jesus Christ confirmed this Bible account of the divine origin of marriage, saying to critics of his day: “Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh ’?
ٱلضِّلْعَ ٱلَّتِي أَخَذَهَا مِنَ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ٱمْرَأَةً وَأَحْضَرَهَا إِلَى ٱلْإِنْسَانِ » .‏ —‏ تكوين ٢ :‏ ​ ٢١ -‏ ٢٤‏ .‏