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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.’
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but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
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You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
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The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!
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And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,
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but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
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The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
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but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;