Genesis 29:30
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Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
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This chapter gives us an account of God's providences concerning Jacob, pursuant to the promises made to him in the foregoing chapter. I. How he was brought in safety to his journey's end, and directed to his relations there, who bade him welcome (Gen 29:1-14). II. How he was comfortably disposed of in marriage (v. 15-30). III. How his family was built up in the birth of four sons (Gen 29:31-35). The affairs of princes and mighty nations that were then in being are not recorded in the book of God, but are left to be buried in oblivion; while these small domestic concerns of holy Jacob are particularly recorded with their minute circumstances, that they may be in everlasting remembrance. For "the memory of the just is blessed."
Open source ↗29:30 Jacob loved Rachel much more than Leah: Favoritism was an ongoing cause of dysfunction in Jacob’s family (cp. 25:28; 37:3). Jacob’s favoritism had lasting effects: his family was never together, and their descendants, the tribes of Israel, were rarely unified.
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Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,