Friday, April 6, 2012

Genesis 29:15-30 and Matthew 19:1-12 (NIV)

Genesis 29:15-30
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
15  Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
16  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17  Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.
18  Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19  Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”
20  So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
21  Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”
22  So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
23  But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. 24  And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.
25  When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”
26  Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
27  Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”
28  And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
29  Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant.
30  Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Matthew 19:1-12
Divorce
1    When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.
2    Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3    Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4    “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 
5    and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 
6    So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7    “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8    Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 
9    I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10  The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
11  Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 
12  For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

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