Genesis 29:30

Bishops' Bible (1568)

So lay he by Rachel also, and loued Rachel more then Lea, and serued hym yet seuen yeres more.

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  • Gen 31:41 : 41 Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 And Iacob loued Rachel, and sayde: I wyll serue thee seuen yere for Rachel thy younger daughter.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Iacob serued seuen yere for Rachel: and they seemed vnto hym but a fewe dayes, for the loue he hadde to her.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised, he made her fruitfull, and Rachel remayned baren.
  • Gen 30:25-26 : 25 Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey. 26 Geue me my wyues and my chyldren for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee.
  • Gen 31:15 : 15 Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.
  • Gen 44:20 : 20 And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.
  • Gen 44:27 : 27 And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man haue two wyues, one beloued, and another hated, and they haue borne hym children, both the loued and also the hated: If the first borne be the sonne of the hated:
  • 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 And Saul sayde to Dauid: Beholde my eldest daughter Merob, her I will geue thee to wife: Onely be a valiaunt sonne vnto me, & fight the Lordes battayles. For Saul thought: Mine hand shall not be vpon him, but the hande of the Philistines shalbe vpon him. 18 And Dauid aunswered Saul: What am I? and what is my lyfe or the kynred of my father in Israel, that I should be sonne in lawe to the king? 19 Howbeit, when the time was come that Merob Sauls daughter shoulde haue ben geuen to Dauid, she was geue vnto Adriel a Meholathite, to wife. 20 Howbeit, Michol Sauls daughter loued Dauid: and they shewed Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 And Saul sayde: I will geue him her that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul sayde to Dauid: Thou shalt this day be my sonne in lawe in the one of the twayne. 22 And Saul comaunded his seruautes to come with Dauid secretely, & to say: Behold, the king hath a fauour to thee, and all his seruautes loue thee: be now therefore the kinges sonne in lawe. 23 And Sauls seruauntes spake those wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid said: semeth it to you a light thing to be a kinges sonne in lawe? seeing that I am a poore man, and of smal reputation. 24 And the seruauntes brought Saul word againe, saying: Of this maner spake Dauid. 25 And Saul sayde, This wise shall ye saye to Dauid: The king careth for no other dowry, but for an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines, to be auenged of the kynges enemies. But Saul thought to make Dauid fall into the handes of the Philistines. 26 And when his seruauntes tolde Dauid these wordes, it pleased Dauid wel to be the kinges sonne in lawe: And the dayes were not expired. 27 Afterward Dauid arose with his men, and went and slue of the Philistines two hundred men, and Dauid brought their foreskinnes, and they gaue them wholly to the king, that he might be the kinges sonne in lawe: Wherefore Saul gaue him Michol his daughter to wife.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man can serue two maisters. For either he shall hate the one, & loue the other: or els leane to the one, and dispise the other. Ye can not serue God, and mammon.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He that loueth father or mother, more then me, is not worthy of me. And he that loueth sonne or daughter, more the me, is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wyfe, and chyldren, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his owne lyfe also, he can not be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He that loueth his lyfe, shall destroy it: and he that hateth his lyfe in this worlde, shall kepe it vnto lyfe eternall.

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  • Gen 29:16-25
    10 verses
    86%

    16Laban had two daughters, the elder called Lea, and the younger Rachel.

    17Lea was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautifull and well fauoured.

    18And Iacob loued Rachel, and sayde: I wyll serue thee seuen yere for Rachel thy younger daughter.

    19Laban aunswered: It is better that I geue her vnto thee, then that I shoulde geue her to another man: abide with me.

    20And Iacob serued seuen yere for Rachel: and they seemed vnto hym but a fewe dayes, for the loue he hadde to her.

    21And Iacob said vnto Laban: geue me my wife that I may lye with her, for my dayes are fulfylled.

    22Then Laban gathered together all the men of that place, and made a feast.

    23And when euen was come, he toke Lea his daughter, and brought her to hym, and he went in to her.

    24And Laban gaue vnto his daughter Lea Zilpha his mayde to be her seruaunt.

    25And when the mornyng was come, beholde it was Lea. Then sayde he to Laban: Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? dyd not I serue thee for Rachel? wherfore then hast thou begyled me?

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    81%

    27Passe out this weeke, & then we wyll geue thee this also for the seruice whiche thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeres more.

    28And Iacob dyd euen so, and passed out the weeke: and then he gaue hym Rachel his daughter to wyfe also.

    29And Laban gaue to Rachel his daughter Bilha his handmayde, to be her seruaunt.

  • Gen 29:31
    77%

    31When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised, he made her fruitfull, and Rachel remayned baren.

  • Gen 31:33
    76%

    33Then went Laban into Iacobs tent, and into Leas tent, and into the two maydseruaunts tentes: but found them not. Then went he out of Leas tent, and entred into Rachels tent:

  • Gen 30:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Then she sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her.

    4And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her.

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    73%

    9Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them.

    10Assoone as Iacob sawe Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, & the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, Iacob went & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, & watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.

    11And Iacob kyssed Rachel, and lift vp his voyce and wept.

    12And Iacob tolde Rachel that he was her fathers brother, and that he was Rebeccaes sonne: Therefore ranne she and tolde her father.

  • Gen 30:7
    72%

    7And Bilha Rachels seruant conceaued againe, & bare Iacob another sonne.

  • Gen 30:9
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    9When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.

  • Gen 31:4
    71%

    4Therfore Iacob sent, & called Rachel and Lea to the fielde vnto his flocke,

  • Gen 30:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16And Iacob came from the fielde at euen, and Lea went out to meete hym, and sayde: thou shalt come in to me, for I haue bought thee in deede with my sonne Mandragoras. And he slept with her that same nyght.

    17And God hearde Lea, that she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne.

  • Gen 29:14
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    14To whom Laban sayde: Well, thou art my bone & my fleshe. And he abode with hym the space of a moneth.

  • Gen 30:19
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    19And Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixt sonne.

  • Gen 30:25
    70%

    25Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.