Genesis 29:30

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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  • Gen 31:41 : 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 30:25-26 : 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
  • Gen 31:15 : 15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
  • Gen 44:20 : 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
  • Gen 44:27 : 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
  • 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. 20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain. 22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law. 23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

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  • Gen 29:16-25
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    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

    18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

    19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

    20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

    21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

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

    23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

    24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.

    25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

    28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

    29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

  • Gen 29:31
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    31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 30:3-4
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    3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

    4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

    10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

    11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    12And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 30:7
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    7And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 30:9
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    9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

  • Gen 30:16-17
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    16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

    17And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

  • Gen 29:14
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    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

  • Gen 30:19
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    19And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

  • Gen 30:25
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    25And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.