Genesis 29:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

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  • Hos 12:12 : 12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
  • Exod 22:16-17 : 16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife. 17 If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.
  • Gen 34:12 : 12 However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.
  • Hos 3:2 : 2 So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

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  • Gen 29:19-21
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    89%

    19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

    20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

    21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

  • Gen 29:24-31
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    24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

    25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

    26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.

    27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

    28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.

    29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.

    30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

    31 Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

  • Gen 29:14-17
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    14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

    15 Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?

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

    17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

    10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

    11 And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

    12 And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • Gen 30:28-29
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    28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

  • Gen 29:6
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    6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

  • Gen 31:41
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    41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

  • Gen 30:25-26
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    25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

    26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

  • Gen 31:6
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    6 And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

  • Gen 30:3
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    3 Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

  • Hos 12:12
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    12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.