Genesis 29:30

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 29:17

And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

Genesis 29:18

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

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 29:29

And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.

Genesis 29:31

Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

Genesis 31:15

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

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 44:20

And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

Genesis 44:27

And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

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.

Matthew 10:37

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Matthew 6:24

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

Luke 14:26

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

John 12:25

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife: