Genesis 29:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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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.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 30:26 : 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."
  • Song 8:6-7 : 6 Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. 7 Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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  • Gen 29:14-19
    6 verses
    89%

    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.

    17Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

    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."

  • Gen 29:27-31
    5 verses
    84%

    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.

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

  • Gen 29:21-25
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    80%

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

    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?"

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    73%

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

    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 31:41
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    41These twenty years have I 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 31:33
    69%

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

  • Hos 12:12
    69%

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

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    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 31:4
    68%

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

  • Gen 30:29
    68%

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

  • Gen 30:4
    68%

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

  • Gen 30:2
    68%

    2Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • Gen 29:6
    68%

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