Genesis 29:27

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

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  • Judg 14:12 : 12 Samson said to them, 'Let me now pose a riddle to you. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast and solve it, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothing.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
  • Judg 14:10 : 10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for young men.
  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 On the seventh day, God finished the work He had been doing. On that day, He rested from all the work He had accomplished. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creation that He had done.
  • Gen 8:10-12 : 10 He waited another seven days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 The dove came back to him in the evening, and in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Noah then knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove once again, but she did not return to him anymore.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 Did not God make them one, with a portion of His spirit in their union? And what was the one seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

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  • Gen 29:28-30
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    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.

  • Gen 29:14-26
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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.

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

    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.'

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

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

    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.'

  • Gen 30:26-29
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    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.’

    27But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

    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 29:9-10
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    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.

  • Gen 30:9
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    9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

  • Gen 31:41
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    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 29:12
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    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 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 31:33
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    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.