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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.
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While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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Nahor’s Sons
Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
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The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
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Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
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Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
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His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
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So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
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May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
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Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
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When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
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As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” And he said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
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And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
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“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
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“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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“Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.
