Genesis 29:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.””
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“Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 29:27 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Genesis 8:10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- 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!
- Leviticus 18:18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Judges 14:10Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- Judges 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- Malachi 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
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