Laban said, “You are my nephew, and you are like one of my own family.” After Jacob had been there for a month,
Abram said to Lot, “We are close relatives. We shouldn't argue, and our men shouldn't be fighting one another.
and the man exclaimed, “Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!”
He told her that he was the son of her aunt Rebekah, and she ran and told her father about him.
Laban said to him, “You shouldn't have to work without pay, just because you are a relative of mine. What do you want me to give you?”
Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not harm him. After all, he is our brother.” And the others agreed.
Israel's leaders met with David at Hebron and said, “We are your relatives.
Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love.
I hope in this way to make some of my own people jealous enough to be saved.
because we are each part of his body.
and told them to say to the leaders of Shechem, “Do you think it would be good to have all seventy of Gideon's sons ruling us? Wouldn't you rather have just one man as king? Abimelech would make a good king, and he's related to us.”