Genesis 29:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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 29:18 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
  • 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 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 30:25-26 : 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 31:15 : 15 Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.
  • Gen 44:20 : 20 And we said to 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 loves him.
  • Gen 44:27 : 27 And 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 beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,
  • 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as your wife: only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said to 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 to Adriel the Meholathite as a 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 her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, Today you shall be my son-in-law in one of the two. 22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Speak with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. 23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in David's ears. And David said, Does it seem 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, This is what David spoke. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires no dowry, but a 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 before the days had expired, 27 Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 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 one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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  • Gen 29:16-25
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    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.

    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.

    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 29:27-29
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    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.

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

  • 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.

  • Gen 30:3-4
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    3 She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go into her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 29:14
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    14 And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for a month.

  • Gen 30:19
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    19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

  • Gen 30:25
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    25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my own place and country."