Quotes About Sacrifice

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

When Abrahamís servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”

They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.

One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

ëBring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.í

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your sonís game, so that you may bless me.”

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be Godís house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Finish this weekís celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”