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Genesis 29:30

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.

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And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years; fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

And Jacob being in love with her said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal.

Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn:

And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead: and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.

Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

To whom her father gave Bala for her servant.




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