the fifth was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital; the sixth was Ithream, whose mother was Eglah.

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

You must not ¹  expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. ²  She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

“‘If anyone ²  curses his father and mother ³  he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself. ⁴ 

the third was Absalom whose mother was Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;

The man ¹  named his wife Eve, ²  because ³  she was the mother of all the living. ⁴ 

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

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

“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.

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

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah; she was Onam’s mother.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, ¹  the Lord would take me in. ² 

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me. ¹ 

He makes the barren woman of the family ¹  a happy mother of children. ²  Praise the Lord!

When I was a son to my father, ¹  a tender only child ²  before my mother,

A wise child ¹  brings joy to his father, but a foolish person ²  despises ³  his mother.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice. ¹ 

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

“‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”