For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Now the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife;

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

And the servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; so Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get the goats for me.”

So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a delicious meal such as his father loved.

May peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you.”

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrake fruits in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Save me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

He also told it to his father as well as to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have had? Am I and your mother and your brothers actually going to come to bow down to the ground before you?”

And as he raised his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little boy born in our father’s old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

“And one who strikes his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.