Someone told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”

For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

“I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says ‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as the leader over his brothers, for he intended to name him his successor.

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, “What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have sexual intercourse with her. She is your aunt.

When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your ancestors, as Aaron your brother was gathered to his ancestors.

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.