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Genesis 29:30

Tree of Life Version

Jacob also went to Rachel and indeed loved Rachel more than Leah. So he served with him for yet another seven years.

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Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, “Let me serve you for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

So Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, yet in his eyes it was like a few days, because of his love for her.

Laban also gave his daughter Rachel his female servant Bilhah, to be a servant for her.

Now Adonai saw that Leah was unloved, so he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

Aren’t we considered foreigners to him? For he has sold us and has also completely used up our bridal price.

This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary ten times!

So we said to my lord, ‘We have a father who is old, a child born to him of his old age is young. Now his brother is dead, so he is the only one of his mother’s children left, and his father loves him.’

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

Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”

“He who loves father or mother more than Me isn’t worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me isn’t worthy of Me.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick by one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it forever.

“Suppose a man has two wives—the one loved and the other unloved—and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons. But it happens that the firstborn son belongs to the unloved wife.




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