14 occurrences

'Brother' in the Bible

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Verse ConceptsCourtsJudgesMagistratesJudging RightlyForeigners Included In The Law

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;

Verse ConceptsForeignersLaws Restricting ForeignersDebt

And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSin, God's Judgment OnEquality Of Punishment

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfRevenge, And RetaliationAbhorOppressing ForeignersNot HatingTwin BrothersStrangers in israel

If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

Verse Conceptslent

He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

Verse ConceptsBeatingsWhipsForties

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBrothersLoyaltyStrangersLack Of SonsBrothers in lawDutyDeath Of A Family MemberRelationships With BoyfriendDeath Of A ChildMarriage Between Man And WomanRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesRelationships And DatingFamily Deathculture

Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

Verse ConceptsBrothersEvil EyesPeople OpposedStingy Peopleempathytenderheartedness

And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people:

Verse ConceptsAfterlifeGathered To One's People

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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain