Genesis 44:27
Hebrew Text— Genesis 44:27Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Connection Network
Click a node to navigate. Drag to explore.
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.
The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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.”
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.
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
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.
She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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.’
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
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,
Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
“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.
“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.