²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

¹⁶ For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.