²³ Then the man said,

²⁴ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(B)

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

²⁷ Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers agreed.^(A)