So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” More versionsKing 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 Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.
Laban said, “This is not done in our country—giving the younger before the firstborn.
Jacob did so and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a 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 you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, as the young men were accustomed to do.
Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.