Genesis 29:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Judg 15:1 : 1 But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
  • Matt 1:18 : 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
  • Gen 4:1 : 1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
  • 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 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 38:16 : 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

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  • Gen 29:22-30
    9 verses
    82%

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

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

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

    25It 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?"

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

    27Fulfill 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."

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

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

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

  • Gen 30:25-26
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    81%

    25It 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.

    26Give 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 29:18-20
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    18Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

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

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

  • Gen 30:15-16
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    75%

    15She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

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

  • Gen 30:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

    4She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

  • Gen 29:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

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

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

  • Gen 31:33
    73%

    33Laban 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 28:2
    73%

    2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:25-27
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    73%

    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

    26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

    27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

  • Gen 31:31
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    31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

  • Gen 30:28
    72%

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

  • Gen 31:36
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    36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

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

  • Gen 31:55
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    55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

  • Gen 29:10-12
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    72%

    10It 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.

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

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

  • Gen 31:43
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    43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

  • Gen 24:51
    71%

    51Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

  • Gen 24:38
    71%

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'