¹⁴ Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”^(A)

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

¹² You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?’ ¹³ And say to Amasa,^(A) ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood?^(B) May God deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(C) if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.^(D)’”

² “Ask all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember, I am your flesh and blood.^(A)”

²³ The man said,

David Becomes King Over Israel^(A)

5 All the tribes of Israel^(B) came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.^(C)

¹⁵ Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative^(A) of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages^(B) should be.”

¹² He had told Rachel that he was a relative^(A) of her father and a son of Rebekah.^(B) So she ran and told her father.^(C)

⁸ So Abram said to Lot,^(A) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,^(B) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.^(C)