Verse 18

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 12:12 : 12 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls—indeed, their altars are like heaps of stone in the furrows of the field.
  • Exod 22:16-17 : 16 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man must still pay the bride price for virgins. 17 Do not allow a sorceress to live.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 34:12 : 12 Set the bride price and gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask me; just give me the young woman as a wife."
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, son of Saul, to say, 'Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a payment of one hundred Philistine foreskins.'
  • Hos 3:2 : 2 So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, a homer of barley, and a lethech of barley.