But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.”
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them, and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?
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