Genesis 29:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Jacob worked for Rachel for seven years, but it seemed like a few days because he loved her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Therefore, Jacob served for seven years for Rachel. And these seemed like only a few days, because of the greatness of love.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

Genesis 29:20 Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

Genesis 29:27

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

Genesis 29:30

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know very well the service I have given you.”

Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.

Genesis 34:19

And the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Samuel 18:23

So Saul’s servants reported these words to David in private. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?”