Genesis 29:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

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  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Exod 22:16-17 : 16 If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 34:12 : 12 Ask me for ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to your saying to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
  • Hos 3:2 : 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.

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  • Gen 29:19-21
    3 verses
    89%

    19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me.

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

    21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.

  • Gen 29:24-31
    8 verses
    86%

    24And Laban gave his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid as a handmaid.

    25And it came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?

    26And Laban said, It must not be done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

    27Fulfill her week, and we will give you the other one also for the service which you shall serve with me for seven more years.

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

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

    30And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.

    31And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 29:14-17
    4 verses
    80%

    14And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for a month.

    15And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    75%

    9And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she tended them.

    10And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, 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 relative, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

    4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 30:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28He said, "Set your wages, and I will give it."

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

  • Gen 29:6
    71%

    6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and behold, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.

  • Gen 31:41
    71%

    41Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my own place and country."

    26"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service which I have done for you."

  • Gen 31:33
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:6
    70%

    6And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

  • Gen 30:3
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    3She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go into her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."

  • Hos 12:12
    70%

    12Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.