Genesis 29:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 12:12 : 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep] .
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 30:26 : 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.
  • Song 8:6-7 : 6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 29:14-19
    6 verses
    89%

    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

    15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17And Leah's eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.

    18And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

    19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

  • Gen 29:27-31
    5 verses
    84%

    27Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

    28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

    29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.

    30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

    31And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 29:21-25
    5 verses
    80%

    21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

    22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

    23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

    24And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    73%

    9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

    10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

    11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    12And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 31:41
    71%

    41These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

  • Gen 31:33
    69%

    33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Hos 12:12
    69%

    12And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep] .

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

    26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

  • Gen 31:4
    68%

    4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

  • Gen 30:29
    68%

    29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

  • Gen 30:4
    68%

    4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

  • Gen 30:2
    68%

    2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

  • Gen 29:6
    68%

    6And he said unto them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.