Genesis 31:15

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

We said to 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 loves him.’

Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.”

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.