Genesis 29:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Jacob lived with Rachel also as his wife, and he loved Rachel more than Leah and served [Laban] another seven years [for her]. American Standard Version (1901) And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Common English Bible Jacob slept with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban seven more years. Catholic Public Domain Version And, having at last obtained the marriage he desired, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and he served with him another seven years. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years. |
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.
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.
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 we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead; he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,
“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
“If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,