Quotes About Sacrifice

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my sonís mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your sonís mandrakes.”

Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Then Shechem said to Dinahís father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.

All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechemís house, and went away.

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.