Genesis 29:30

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Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years.

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  • Gen 31:41 : 41 This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
  • Gen 30:25-26 : 25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country. 26 Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”
  • Gen 31:15 : 15 Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
  • Gen 44:20 : 20 We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
  • Gen 44:27 : 27 “Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
  • 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 Then Saul said to David,“Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the LORD.”For Saul thought,“There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!” 18 David said to Saul,“Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” 19 When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah. 20 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him. 21 Saul said,“I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David,“Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 22 Then Saul instructed his servants,“Tell David secretly,‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.” 23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately to David. David replied,“Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!” 24 When Saul’s servants reported what David had said, 25 Saul replied,“Here is what you should say to David:‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’”(Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.) 26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired 27 when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

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  • Gen 29:16-25
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    16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

    17Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

    18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

    20So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

    21Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”

    22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

    23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

    24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

    25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    27Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

    28Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 29:31
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    31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

  • Gen 30:3-4
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    3She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

    4So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

    12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 30:7
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    7Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

  • Gen 30:9
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    9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 30:16-17
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    16When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said,“You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son’s mandrakes.” So he went to bed with her that night.

    17God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

  • Gen 29:14
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    14Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • Gen 30:19
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    19Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.

  • Gen 30:25
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    25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.