Genesis 29:30

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

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  • 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 29:18 : 18 Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'
  • 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 29:31 : 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
  • Gen 30:25-26 : 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 31:15 : 15 Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.
  • Gen 44:20 : 20 And we answered my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'"
  • Gen 44:27 : 27 Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,
  • 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 Saul said to David, 'Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage, but you must serve me bravely and fight the LORD’s battles.' For Saul thought, 'I will not raise my hand against him; let the Philistines do that.' 18 But David said to Saul, 'Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law?' 19 But when the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she was given instead to Adriel of Meholah in marriage. 20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased. 21 Saul thought, 'I will give her to him so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.' So Saul said to David, 'Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.' 22 Then Saul ordered his servants, 'Speak to David privately and say, "Look, the king likes you, and all his servants love you; now become his son-in-law."' 23 They repeated these words to David. But David said, 'Do you think it is a small matter to become the king’s son-in-law? I’m only a poor man and little known.' 24 When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said, 25 Saul replied, 'Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."' Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines. 26 When Saul’s servants told David these words, it pleased David to become the king’s son-in-law. However, the allotted time had not yet passed. 27 So David arose and went out with his men, and they struck down two hundred Philistines. David brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
  • 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.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 29:16-25
    10 verses
    86%

    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.'

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

    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 29:27-29
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    81%

    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.

  • Gen 29:31
    77%

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

  • Gen 31:33
    76%

    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.

  • Gen 30:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Then 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.'

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

  • 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 30:7
    72%

    7 Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 30:9
    71%

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

  • Gen 31:4
    71%

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

  • Gen 30:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You must come to me tonight, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.

    17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 29:14
    71%

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

  • Gen 30:19
    70%

    19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

  • Gen 30:25
    70%

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

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