You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

“‘If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

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

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.

So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I’ll die!”

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’