¹⁴ and Laban said to him, ^(A)“Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

¹² You are my brothers; ^(A)you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’ ¹³ And say to Amasa, ^(B)‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^(C)God do so to me and more also, if you are not ^(D)commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

² “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all ^(A)seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that ^(B)I am ^(C)your bone and your flesh.”

²³ Then the man said,

David Anointed King of Israel

5 Then all the tribes of Israel ^(A)came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, ^(B)we are your bone and flesh.

¹⁵ Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was ^(A)her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, ^(B)and she ran and told her father.

⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, ^(A)“Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, ^(B)for we are kinsmen.^[a]