What it means: Your family is more important than anything else and they should come before people who aren't related. Where to comes from: You can't choose your family and unfortunately for many people, their family abandons them in their time of need. But that doesn't mean that you don't find a family in your friends, and that's what the men from the Middle east used to believe. They believed that blood rituals represented a stronger bond between them than it did with their family members. Warriors and soldiers or 'blood brothers' had stronger bonds and connections with each other on the battlefield than with their biological brothers who were absent.
