Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.
And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.
So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.
And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.
Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.
And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.
But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;
But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna.
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.
Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.
Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
Now by the side of the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.
You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.
You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.
And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.
You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.
And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.
And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.
And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.
But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.
Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.
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