Genesis 29:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
  • Gen 30:26 : 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.
  • Song 8:6-7 : 6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames. 7 Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

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  • Gen 29:14-19
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    89%

    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.

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

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

  • Gen 29:27-31
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    84%

    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 29:21-25
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    21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

    22 And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.

    23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

    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?

  • 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 31:41
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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 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Gen 30:29
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    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

  • Gen 30:4
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    4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

  • Gen 30:2
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    2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

  • 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.