Quotes About Kinship

but you shall go to my fatherís house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.í

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís sister; she is your fatherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with your motherís sister, for she is your motherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing oneís own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.í”

Hemanís kinsman was Asaph, who served at his right hand: Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

On the left were their kinsmen, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saulís kinsmen from Benjamin):

From Benjamin, the kinsmen of Saul: 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to the house of Saul up to that time.

My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.