Genesis 29:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
  • Exod 22:16-17 : 16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for 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 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 34:12 : 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
  • Hos 3:2 : 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

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  • Gen 29:19-21
    3 verses
    89%

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

    20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

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

  • Gen 29:24-31
    8 verses
    86%

    24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

    26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

    27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

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

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

    30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

    31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 29:14-17
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    14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

    15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

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

    17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

  • Gen 29:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

    10 It happened, 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.

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

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

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

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

  • Gen 30:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Gen 29:6
    71%

    6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

  • Gen 31:41
    71%

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

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Gen 31:33
    70%

    33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 31:6
    70%

    6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

  • Gen 30:3
    70%

    3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

  • Hos 12:12
    70%

    12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.