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Genesis 29:30

New American Bible - revised edition

Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years. Jacob’s Children.

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Leah had dull eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.

Laban assigned his maidservant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he made her fruitful, while Rachel was barren.

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? He not only sold us; he has even used up the money that he got for us!

Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.

So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age. This one’s full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by his mother who is left, his father is devoted to him.’

Then your servant my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife bore me two sons.

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Dependence on God.

“If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and if both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife:




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