Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two {sons}:

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him {but} a few days, for the love he had to her.

And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, {both} the beloved and the hated; and {if} the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. {valiant: Heb. a son of valour}

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.

And when the LORD saw that Leah {was} hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

If any {man} come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Give {me} my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

And when the LORD saw that Leah {was} hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. {worthy: or, double}

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, {both} the beloved and the hated; and {if} the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

If any {man} come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.