¹⁴ Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”^[a](A)

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

¹² You are my brothers, my flesh and blood.^(A) So why should you be the last to restore the king?’ ¹³ And tell Amasa,^(B) ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me and do so severely if you don’t become commander of the army from now on instead of Joab!’”

³ For I could almost wish^(A) to be cursed^(B) and cut off^[a] from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.