Genesis 29:20

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

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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.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. She became his wife, and he loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Gen 30:26 : 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.’
  • Song 8:6-7 : 6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as fierce as the grave. Its flames are fiery flames, the very flame of the Lord. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers sweep it away. If someone were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 29:14-19
    6 verses
    89%

    14 Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 29:27-31
    5 verses
    84%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 29:21-25
    5 verses
    80%

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

    22 So Laban gathered all the men of the place and held a feast.

    23 But that evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob was with her.

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

    25 In 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?'

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    73%

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

    10 When 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.

    11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

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

  • Gen 31:41
    71%

    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 31:33
    69%

    33 So 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.

  • Hos 12:12
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25 After 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 31:4
    68%

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

  • Gen 30:29
    68%

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

  • Gen 30:4
    68%

    4 So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

  • Gen 30:2
    68%

    2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

  • Gen 29:6
    68%

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

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