Genesis 29:30 Cross References - VIN

³⁰ Jacob slept with Rachel too. He loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

²⁵ When Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country. ²⁶ "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you. Let me depart. For you know how much service I have done for you."

¹⁵ Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks: and you have changed my wages ten times.

²⁰ "We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

²⁷ Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

¹⁵ "If a man has two wives where one is loved but the other is unloved, and both of them bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the LORD." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." ¹⁸ David said to Saul, "Who am I and what is my life or my father's family in Israel that I should be the king's son-in-law?" ¹⁹ And when the time came to give Saul's daughter Merab to David, she was given as a wife to Adriel of Meholah. ²⁰ And Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David: and Saul had word of it and was pleased. ²¹ Saul said, I will give her to him so that she can be a snare to him, and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day have a second opportunity to be my son-in-law. ²² Saul commanded his servants, Speak to David secretly and say, 'Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you; now therefore be the king's son-in-law'. ²³ Saul's servants told David this. David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known? ²⁴ The servants of Saul told him what David said. ²⁵ Saul said, Tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged on the king's enemies'. Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶ When his servants told David this, he was pleased to be the king's son-in-law. Before the allotted time ²⁷ David arose and went with his men and killed two hundred of the Philistine men, and David brought their foreskins, and gave them in full number to the king so that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as his wife.

¹² Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

²⁴ No one can serve two masters: 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 both God and money.

³⁷ 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;

²⁶ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.