Genesis 29:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.

Genesis 29:19

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

Genesis 29:20

And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

Genesis 29:30

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

Genesis 34:12

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

2 Samuel 3:14

And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;