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Genesis 31:41
For 20 years I have worked in your household— 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks— and you have changed my wages 10 times!
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban,“ I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.
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John 12:25
The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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1 Samuel 18 17-1 Samuel 18 27
Saul told David,“ Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife, if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” But Saul was thinking,“ My hand doesn’t need to be against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”Then David responded,“ Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when it was reported to Saul, it pleased him.“ I’ll give her to him,” Saul thought.“ She’ll be a trap for him, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David a second time,“ You can now be my son-in-law.”Saul then ordered his servants,“ Speak to David in private and tell him,‘ Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Therefore, you should become the king’s son-in-law.’”Saul’s servants reported these words directly to David, but he replied,“ Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law? I am a poor man who is common.”The servants reported back to Saul,“ These are the words David spoke.”Then Saul replied,“ Say this to David:‘ The king desires no other bride-price except 100 Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Actually, Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,David and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.
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Genesis 31:15
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our money.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
“ If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
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Matthew 10:37
The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, and even his own life— he cannot be My disciple.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.
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Genesis 44:27
Your servant my father said to us,‘ You know that my wife bore me two sons.
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
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Genesis 30:25-26
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“ Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
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Genesis 44:20
and we answered my lord,‘ We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’