So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:27 - The Scriptures 2009 Complete the week of this one, then we give you this one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Finish the [wedding feast] week [for Leah]; then we will give you [Rachel] also, and you shall work for me yet seven more years in return. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Complete the celebratory week with this woman. Then I will give you this other woman too for your work, if you work for me seven more years.” Catholic Public Domain Version Complete a week of days with this mating. And then I will give this one to you also, for the service that you will provide to me for another seven years." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years. |
So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
And Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
And Ya‛aqoḇ did so and completed her week. Then he gave him his daughter Raḥĕl too, as wife.
“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.
‘And do not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.
And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one alone? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth.
For the love of silver is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some, by longing for it, have strayed from the belief, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
So his father went down to the woman. And Shimshon gave a feast there, for young men used to do so.
And Shimshon said to them, “Please let me put forth a riddle to you. If you clearly solve and explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, then I shall give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of garments.