Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 29:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Finally, Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, so that I may take her to me. American Standard Version (1901) And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Common English Bible Jacob said to Laban, “The time has come. Give me my wife so that I may sleep with her.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to Laban, "Give my wife to me. For now the time has been fulfilled, so that I may go in to her." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. |
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.
So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.
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.
He went over to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit.
After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, “I want to go into my wife’s room.” But her father would not allow him to go in.