¹³ As it is written,

Israel Preferred to Edom

² “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,^{(A) 3} but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.^(B)

The Right of the Firstborn

¹⁵ “If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,

³³ She conceived again and bore a son and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also,” and she named him Simeon.^[a]

³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.^(A)

²⁵ Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.^(A)

²⁶ “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.^(A)

³⁷ “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,^(A)