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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text.Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders and...

father.…” However, some translators have found it more suitable to say, for example, “Therefore, both the husband and the wife leave their parents.” In other cases it is better to avoid the meaning of a man’s physical relocation altogether, and to express the sense in terms of his separating from the parents’ family unit to make a new family unit with his wife. If even this approach does not solve the problem, it may be necessary to include a note explaining that this text focuses on the setting
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