14 After that Laʹban said to him: “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.”+ So he dwelt with him a full month.*

15 you should without fail set over yourself a king whom Jehovah your God will choose.+ From among your brothers you should set a king over yourself. You will not be allowed to put over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother.

2 “Speak, please, in the hearing of all the landowners* of Sheʹchem, ‘Which is better for YOU, for seventy men,+ all the sons of Jer·ub·baʹal, to rule over YOU or for one man to rule over YOU? And YOU must remember that YOUR bone and YOUR flesh I am.’”+

12 My brothers YOU are; my bone and my flesh YOU are.+ So why should YOU become the last ones to bring the king back?’