Genesis 29:20

English Standard Version 2016

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:7

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.

1 Samuel 18:23

And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”

Genesis 29:27

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

Genesis 29:30

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 34:19

And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father’s house.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.