Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,
“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.”
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.
Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.
Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
for we are members of his body.
in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.