Gen 29:30-31, Deu 21:15, Job 7:15-16, Ecc 2:17-19, Mal 1:2-3 | ESV | STEP | So Jacob went in to Rachel also , and he loved Rachel more than Leah , and served Laban for another seven years .

j[See ver. 11 above]

k ch. 1:3

l Ps. 39:6; 49:10

m Deut. 7:8; Jer. 31:3

n[ch. 2:14, 17; 3:7, 8, 13]

o[Amos 1:11; Obad. 10]

pCited Rom. 9:13

q Isa. 34:13; Jer. 49:10, 18; Ezek. 35:3, 4; Joel 3:19

Genesis 29:30-31

30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban ^afor another seven years.

Jacob’s Children

31 When the Lord saw that Leah was ^bhated, ^che opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Deuteronomy 21:15

Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn

15 “If a man has two wives, ^dthe one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, ^{▼▼Or hated; also verses 16, 17}

Job 7:15-16

15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my ^fbones.
16 I ^gloathe my life; I would not live forever.
^hLeave me alone, for my days are ⁱa breath.

Ecclesiastes 2:17-19

17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for ^jall is vanity and a striving after wind.

The Vanity of Toil

18 I hated ^kall my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must ^lleave it to the man who will come after me, 19 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Malachi 1:2-3

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 ^m“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ⁿBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^oJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^pI have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. ^qI have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”