'Mother' in the Bible
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.
And the man {named} his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.
{Besides}, she [is] my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.
And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Then the girl ran and reported these things to the household of her mother.
And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave [them] to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.
And her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days [or so]; after [that] she may go."
And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after [the death of] his mother.
Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, but I [am] a smooth man.
Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice--go and get [them] for me."
So he went and took [them], and brought [them] to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you."
Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
and [that] Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.
And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children [alike].
And he told [it] to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What [is] this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?"
Then he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you told me?" And he continued, "God be gracious to you, my son."
And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'
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