Genesis 29:14
Laban [White] said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.
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Genesis 2:23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘ 'ishah ·wife woman·,’ because she was taken out of 'ish ·husband man·.” + 2:23 With Hebrew inserted: “(v22) Yahweh God fashioned an 'ishah ·wife woman· from the rib which had taken from the 'adam ·man·, and brought her to the 'adam. (v23) The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called “ 'ishah ·wife woman·,” because she was taken out of 'ish ·husband man·.’” + 2:23 Adam [Human, Red earth] makes an astounding statement, repeating what God had said. It takes an 'ishah ·wife woman· to make an 'adam ·male, human· into a 'ish ·husband man·.
Genesis 29:12Jacob [Supplanter] told Rachel [Ewe sheep] that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah [Securely bound]’s son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 37:27Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites [Pays attention God], and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers sh'ma ·heard obeyed· him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:10-15
Rachel's Humility and Industry. ( b. c. 1760.) 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and… Read the whole commentary →