And He said, Take now your son, your only one, Isaac, whom you love. And go into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to you.

And make tasty meat for me, such as I love, and bring to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her.

And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben, for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked upon my afflictions. Now therefore my husband will love me.

And Reuben went out in the days of the wheat harvest, and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, please give me some of your son's love-apples.

And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? And would you also take my son's love-apples? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you tonight for your son's love-apples.

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening. And Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's love-apples. And he lay with her that night.

and showing mercy to thousands of those that love Me and keep My commandments.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons. I do not want to go out free

You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Jehovah.

The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

and doing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Jehovah did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.

Therefore, know that Jehovah your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations.

And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

And now, Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is today.

Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and His commandments always.

And it will be, if you will listen carefully to My commandments which I command you today, to love Jehovah your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

For if you will carefully keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him,

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

if you will keep all these commandments which I command you today, to do them, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add to yourself three more cities to these three,

And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

in that I command you today to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.

so that you may love Jehovah your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.

Only, diligently take heed to do the commands and the Law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And take good heed to yourselves that you love Jehovah your God.

So let all Your enemies perish, O Jehovah. But let them that love Him be like the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You only hate me, and do not love me. You have put forth a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell you?

And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, and your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in what your great strength lies.

And Saul commanded his servants, Talk with David secretly and say, Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you. And now be the king's son-in-law.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant you have been to me. Your love to me was wonderful, more than the love of women.

And he said to him, Why are you, the king's son, lean from day to day? Will you not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Then Amnon hated her with a great hatred. And the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Get up and go.

By loving your enemies and hating those who love you, you have declared today that there are neither commanders nor servants to you. For I know that today if Absalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you very much!

of the nations which Jehovah had said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate Jehovah? And by this bring wrath on you from before Jehovah.

And I said, I pray You, O Jehovah, the God of Heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and mercy for those who love Him and keep His commandments;

O sons of men, how long will you turn My glory into shame? Will you love vanity and seek after a lie? Selah.

But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them always shout for joy, because You defend them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul; and he said: I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.

O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and they who love His name shall dwell in it.

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say without ending, Let God be magnified.

Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.

You who love Jehovah, hate evil; He keeps the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

For my love they are my foes; but I am in prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I love Jehovah because He hears my voice and my prayers.

MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day.

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

You put away all the wicked of the earth like waste; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Therefore I love Your Commandments above gold; yea, even fine gold.

Look on me, and be merciful to me, as You usually do to those who love Your name.

See how I love Your Commandments; O Jehovah, according to Your loving-kindness give me life.

I hate and despise lying; but I love Your Law.

Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block for them.

My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; those who love you shall be blessed.

Jehovah watches over all those who love Him; but all the wicked He will destroy.

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

Do not forsake her, and she shall preserve you; love her, and she shall keep you.

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.

I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.

I may cause those who love me to inherit riches; and I will fill their treasuries.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; give to a wise man, and he will love you.

Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

For all this I took to heart, even to make all this clear, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for Your love is better than wine.

For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.

Draw me, we will run after You. The King has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in You, we will remember Your love more than wine; the upright love You.

O My love, I have compared you to My mares among Pharaoh's chariots.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; you have doves' eyes.

As the lily among thorns, so is My love among the daughters.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love.

Feed me with raisin cakes, comfort me with apples, for I am sick with love.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the does of the field, do not stir up or awake my Love until He please.

My Beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, My love, My beautiful one, and come away.

the fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, My love, My beautiful one, and come away.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the does of the field, do not stir up nor awake my love until it pleases.

He made its poles of silver, its back gold, its seat of purple, its middle was paved with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.

Behold, you are beautiful, My love. Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves' from behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead.

You are all fair, My love; no blemish is in you.