Genesis 29:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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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.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 30:26 : 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."
  • Song 8:6-7 : 6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave: its coals are coals of fire, with a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would utterly be scorned.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died:
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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  • Gen 29:14-19
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    89%

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 29:27-31
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    84%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 29:21-25
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    21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.

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

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

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

    25 And 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?

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9 And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she tended them.

    10 And 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.

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

    12 And 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 31:41
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    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 31:33
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    33 And 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.

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

  • Gen 30:25-26
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    68%

    25 When 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 31:4
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    4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 30:29
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    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

  • Gen 30:4
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    4 She gave him Bilhah her maid as a wife, and Jacob went into her.

  • Gen 30:2
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    2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • Gen 29:6
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    6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and behold, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.