Genesis 29:30
30So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban afor another seven years.Genesis 30:22-24
22Then God bremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and copened her womb. 23She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away dmy reproach.” 24And she called his name Joseph, ▼▼ Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away
saying, f“May the Lord add to me another son!” Genesis 37:3
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was gthe son of his old age. And he made him ha robe of many colors. ▼▼See Septuagint, Vulgate; or (with Syriac) a robe with long sleeves. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain; also verses 23, 32
Malachi 3:17
17“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, jin the day when I make up kmy treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
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