¹³ according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

² I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'

³ Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

³¹ And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;

³³ And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, `Because Jehovah hath heard that I `am' the hated one, He also giveth to me even this `one';' and she calleth his name Simeon.

¹⁵ `When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

²⁴ Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

²⁶ `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

²⁵ he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;