Genesis 29:30 Cross References

Genesis 29:30

30: So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her more than Leah. He then stayed and worked the additional seven years.

Yes, twenty years--fourteen of them earning your two daughters, and six years to get the flock. And you have reduced my wages ten times!

Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, "I'll work for you seven years if you'll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife."

So Jacob spent the next seven years working to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

Soon after Joseph was born to Rachel, Jacob said to Laban, "I want to go back home.
Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them from you, and let me be on my way. You know I have fully paid for them with my service to you."

He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. He sold us, and what he received for us has disappeared.

"No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

"If you want to be my follower you must love me more than your own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, more than your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

But because Leah was unloved, the LORD let her have a child, while Rachel was childless.

We said, `Yes, we have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, his youngest son. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him very much.'

Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who despise their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

"Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.

One day Saul said to David, "I am ready to give you my older daughter, Merab, as your wife. But first you must prove yourself to be a real warrior by fighting the LORD's battles." For Saul thought to himself, "I'll send him out against the Philistines and let them kill him rather than doing it myself."
"Who am I, and what is my family in Israel that I should be the king's son-in-law?" David exclaimed. "My father's family is nothing!"
So when the time came for the wedding, Saul gave Merab in marriage to Adriel, a man from Meholah.
In the meantime, Saul's daughter Michal had fallen in love with David, and Saul was delighted when he heard about it.
"Here's another chance to see him killed by the Philistines!" Saul said to himself. But to David he said, "I have a way for you to become my son-in-law after all!"

If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

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