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Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
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Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”
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Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.
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And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
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Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
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Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.
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So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The Lord has surely looked on my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.”
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His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
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And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’