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Genesis describes a man leaving his parents to unite with his wife and become one. Paul quotes this verse in 1 Corinthians to argue that joining with a prostitute likewise makes two people one flesh.
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LXX Genesis 2:24

Septuagint
23 And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 25 And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Date: 3rd century BCE (based on scholarly estimates)

1 Corinthians 6:16

New Testament
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.
Date: 55–57 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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“... To sleep with a prostitute was natural enough for a young man in Corinth. Jews admitted that a bachelor who remained chaste in a great city must be an outstandingly pious man. For Paul, to sleep with a prostitute involved nothing less than becoming ‘one flesh’ with her, as surely as Adam had become one flesh with Eve. It was a startling use of an image of physical joining usually applied only to husband and wife. ...”
Brown, Peter The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (pp. 51-52) Columbia University Press, 1988

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