Genesis 29:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 29:19

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

Genesis 29:27

Fulfill 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.

Genesis 29:30

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

Genesis 31:15

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

Genesis 34:19

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honoured above all the house of his father.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 12:13

And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

1 Corinthians 13:7

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

1 Samuel 18:23

And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?