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Genesis 31:41
This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
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Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“ I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
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Genesis 29:31
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
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John 12:25
The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
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1 Samuel 18 17-1 Samuel 18 27
Then Saul said to David,“ Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the LORD.” For Saul thought,“ There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”David said to Saul,“ Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.Saul said,“ I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David,“ Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.”Then Saul instructed his servants,“ Tell David secretly,‘ The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.”So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately to David. David replied,“ Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,Saul replied,“ Here is what you should say to David:‘ There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’”( Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expiredwhen David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
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Genesis 31:15
Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
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Deuteronomy 21:15
Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
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Matthew 10:37
“ 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.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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Matthew 6:24
“ 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.
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Genesis 44:27
“ Then your servant my father said to us,‘ You know that my wife gave me two sons.
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.
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Genesis 30:25-26
After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“ Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”
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Genesis 44:20
We said to my lord,‘ We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’