<p class="poetry">yet you<n id="1" /> hate what is good,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and love what is evil.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You flay my people&#8217;s skin<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and rip the flesh from their bones.<n id="5" />p>

Then someone will ask him, &#8216;What are these wounds on your chest?&#8217;<n id="1" /> and he will answer, &#8216;Some that I received in the house of my friends.&#8217;p>

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don&#8217;t matter to you. I realize now<n id="1" /> that if<n id="2" /> Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today,<n id="3" /> it would be all right with you.

therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.<n id="1" />

Then Isaac brought Rebekah<n id="1" /> into his mother Sarah&#8217;s tent. He took her<n id="2" /> as his wife and loved her.<n id="3" /> So Isaac was comforted after his mother&#8217;s death.<n id="4" />p>

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then<n id="1" /> I will eat it so that I may bless you<n id="2" /> before I die.&#8221;p>

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I&#8217;ll prepare<n id="1" /> them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

Jacob<n id="1" /> had marital relations<n id="2" /> with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban<n id="3" /> for seven more years.<n id="4" />p>

So Leah became pregnant<n id="1" /> and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,<n id="2" /> for she said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has looked with pity on my oppressed condition.<n id="3" /> Surely my husband will love me now.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons<n id="1" /> because he was a son born to him late in life,<n id="2" /> and he made a special<n id="3" /> tunic for him.

When Joseph&#8217;s<n id="1" /> brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them,<n id="2" /> they hated Joseph<n id="3" /> and were not able to speak to him kindly.<n id="4" />p>

We said to my lord, &#8216;We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.<n id="1" /> The boy&#8217;s<n id="2" /> brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother&#8217;s sons left,<n id="3" /> and his father loves him.&#8217;p>

But if the servant should declare,<n id="1" /> &#8216;I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out<n id="2" /> free,&#8217;

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so<n id="1" /> you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

Moreover, because he loved<n id="1" /> your ancestors, he chose their<n id="2" /> descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

So realize that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is the true God,<n id="1" /> the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully<n id="2" /> with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

However, only to your ancestors did he<n id="1" /> show his loving favor,<n id="2" /> and he chose you, their descendants,<n id="3" /> from all peoples &#8211; as is apparent today.

However, if the servant<n id="1" /> says to you, &#8220;I do not want to leave<n id="2" /> you,&#8221; because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will also cleanse<n id="1" /> your heart and the hearts of your descendants<n id="2" /> so that you may love him<n id="3" /> with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

<p class="poetry">May all your enemies perish like this, O <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">But may those who love you shinep> <p class="poetry">like the rising sun at its brightest!&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">And the land had rest for forty years.p>