Genesis 29:27

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.’

Cross References

Judges 14:12

‘Let me tell you a riddle,’  Samson said to them. ‘If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and work it out, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.

Leviticus 18:18

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t God make them one and give them a portion of spirit? What is the one seeking?  Godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully,  , so that no one acts treacherously against the wife of his  youth.

Judges 14:10

His father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as young men were accustomed to do.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root  of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith  and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Genesis 29:26

Laban answered, ‘It is not the custom in our country to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Genesis 31:41

For twenty years in your household I served you #– #fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks   #– #and you have changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.