Genesis 29:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.””
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“Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 29:18 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- Genesis 29:30Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
- Genesis 31:41Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
- Genesis 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Exodus 22:16If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.
- 2 Samuel 3:14Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
- Hosea 3:2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
- Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).