Genesis 29:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he answered, “If you will let me marry Rachel, I'll work seven years for you.”

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Isaac took Rebekah into the tent where his mother had lived before she died, and Rebekah became his wife. He loved her and was comforted over the loss of his mother.

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “It's better for me to let you marry Rachel than for someone else to have her. So stay and work for me.”

Genesis 29:20

Jacob worked seven years for Laban, but the time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.

Genesis 30:26

You know how hard I've worked for you, so let me take my wives and children and leave.”

Genesis 31:41

I had to work fourteen of these twenty long years to earn your two daughters and another six years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.

Genesis 34:12

Ask anything, no matter how expensive. I'll do anything, just let me marry Dinah.”

2 Samuel 3:14

David sent a few of his officials to Ishbosheth to give him this message: “Give me back my wife Michal! I killed a hundred Philistines so I could marry her.”

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Hosea 3:2

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and about a hundred and fifty kilogrammes of grain for such a woman.