Genesis 29:14
Good News Translation
Laban said, "Yes, indeed, you are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a whole month.

New Revised Standard Version
and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

Contemporary English Version
Laban said, "You are my nephew, and you are like one of my own family." After Jacob had been there for a month,

New American Bible
and Laban said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” After Jacob had stayed with him a full month,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

art my.

Genesis 29:12,15 And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father. . . .

Genesis 2:23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Genesis 13:8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

Judges 9:2 Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.

2 Samuel 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 19:12,13 You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king? . . .

Micah 7:5 Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.

Ephesians 5:30 Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

the space of a month.

Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
14He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,15He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.…
Cross References
Romans 11:14
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

Genesis 2:23
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Judges 9:2
Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?

2 Samuel 19:13
And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

Genesis 29:13
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