But Onan knew that the child ¹  would not be considered his. ²  So whenever ³  he had sexual relations with ⁴  his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely ⁵  so as not to give his brother a descendant.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know ¹  that you are honest men and not spies. ²  Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’” ³ 

When Joseph looked up ¹  and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.” ² 

The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s ¹  brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away. ¹ 

Then she gave birth ¹  to his brother Abel. ²  Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground. ³ 

The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

And sons were also born ¹  to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), ²  the father of all the sons of Eber.

(Now ¹  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) ¹  Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! ¹ 

Now then, my son, do what I say. ¹  Run away immediately ²  to my brother Laban in Haran.

Jacob sent messengers on ahead ¹  to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region ²  of Edom.

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah. ¹ 

If you send ¹  our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble ¹  on me by telling ²  the man you had one more brother?”

Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

except for his close relative who is near to him: ¹  his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

Then Jotham ran away ¹  to Beer and lived there to escape from ²  Abimelech his half-brother. ³