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Genesis 29:30

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So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

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Leah's eyes were weak,[1] but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'

Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

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, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[6]

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, 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 keep it for eternal life.

"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,[1]




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