The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:

“Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.

Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family,

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.