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Then God said: Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.
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Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.
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Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.
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Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years. Jacob’s Children.
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Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben; for she said, “It means, ‘The Lord saw my misery; surely now my husband will love me.’”
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He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.
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Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic.
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When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.
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“Naphtali is a hind let loose, which brings forth lovely fawns.
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In your love you led the people you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to your holy dwelling.
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but showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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If, however, the slave declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I will not leave as a free person,’
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So the Lord passed before him and proclaimed: The Lord, the Lord, a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love and fidelity,
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continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!
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Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
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You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the Lord, am your God.
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God’s Fidelity and Love. When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God,
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For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,
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but showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.
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It was because the Lord loved you and because of his fidelity to the oath he had sworn to your ancestors, that the Lord brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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Know, then, that the Lord, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,
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He will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and wine and oil, the young of your herds and the offspring of your flocks, in the land which he swore to your ancestors he would give you.
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The Lord’s Majesty and Compassion. Now, therefore, Israel, what does the Lord, your God, ask of you but to fear the Lord, your God, to follow in all his ways, to love and serve the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and with your whole being,