Genesis 29:18

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

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  • 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.

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  • Gen 29:19-21
    3 verses
    89%

    19Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

    20So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

    21Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is completed, and I want to be with her.'

  • Gen 29:24-31
    8 verses
    86%

    24Laban also gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

    25In the morning, Jacob saw it was Leah. So he said to Laban, 'What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?'

    26Laban replied, 'It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter before the older one.'

    27'Complete this week’s celebration with Leah, and we will give you Rachel also, in return for another seven years of work.'

    28Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

    30Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Gen 29:14-17
    4 verses
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    14Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

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

    17Leah had tender eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

    4So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 30:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

  • Gen 29:6
    71%

    6Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.'

  • Gen 31:41
    71%

    41It 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 30:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Send me on my way so I can go back to my homeland.'

    26‘Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, so that I may go. You know how hard I have worked for you.’

  • Gen 31:33
    70%

    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

  • Gen 31:6
    70%

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

  • Gen 30:3
    70%

    3Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

  • Hos 12:12
    70%

    12If 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.