The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about ¹  these things.

You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. ¹  He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, ² 

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Leave immediately ¹  for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Certainly ¹  you made my mind and heart; ²  you wove me together ³  in my mother’s womb.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me. ¹ 

Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ¹ 

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. ¹  His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom. ² 

“Whoever strikes ¹  his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully ¹  must surely be put to death.

There is a generation ¹  who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. ² 

The words of King Lemuel, ¹  an oracle ²  that his mother taught him:

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

“Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ¹ 

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana ¹  in Galilee. ²  Jesus’ mother ³  was there,

But the Jerusalem above is free, ¹  and she is our mother.

They will be divided, ¹  father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

You plot against your brother; ¹  you slander your own brother. ²