Genesis 29:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Judges 9:2

“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

Genesis 2:23

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

2 Samuel 5:1

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh.

Micah 7:5

Put no trust in a friend; have no confidence in a loved one; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your embrace,

Genesis 29:15

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

Genesis 29:12

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.

Genesis 13:8

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me and between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of them.

Genesis 37:27

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.