“And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.”
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. The comparison of Jacob's love — greater for Rachel than for Leah — is the honest acknowledgment of a reality that will create the family dynamics of the next decade. The fourteen years of labor are mentioned in the same breath as the greater love: work was the price of what he loved most. The application: the things we love most tend to cost most. Jacob worked fourteen years for Rachel.
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