Quotes about Relationships
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
— Genesis 13:8
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
— Genesis 19:33
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
— Genesis 20:12
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
— Genesis 21:9
Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
— Genesis 21:23
But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
— Genesis 24:55
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
— Genesis 26:9
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
— Genesis 26:34
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
— Genesis 27:45
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
— Genesis 28:8
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
— Genesis 28:9
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
— Genesis 29:16