Genesis 29:27

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Judg 14:12 : 12 Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
  • Judg 14:10 : 10 His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
  • Gen 8:10-12 : 10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship. 11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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    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.

  • Gen 29:14-26
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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.

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

    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."

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

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

    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.

  • Gen 30:26-29
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    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."

    27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

    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.

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    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.

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

  • Gen 31:41
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    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.

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

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    14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

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    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.