Genesis 29:30

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So Jacob had sexual relations with Rachel also. And Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. Jacob worked for Laban for another seven years.

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

I worked 20 years like a slave for you. For the first 14 years I worked to win your two daughters. The last six years I worked to earn your animals. And during that time you changed my pay ten times.

Matthew 10:37

“Those who love their father or mother more than they love me are not worthy of me. And those who love their son or daughter more than they love me are not worthy of me.

Genesis 44:27

Then my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban for seven years. But it seemed like a very short time because he loved Rachel very much.

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said to Laban, “I will work seven years for you if you will allow me to marry your daughter Rachel.”

John 12:25

Whoever loves the life they have now will lose it. But whoever is willing to give up their life in this world will keep it. They will have eternal life.

Hosea 12:12

“Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. There Israel worked for a wife. He kept sheep to get another wife.

Deuteronomy 21:15

“A man might have two wives. He might love one wife more than the other. Both wives might have children for him, but the firstborn son might be from the wife he does not love.

Genesis 44:20

And we answered you, ‘We have a father—he is an old man. And we have a younger brother. Our father loves him because he was born while our father was old. This youngest son’s brother is dead, so he is the only son who is left from that mother. Our father loves him very much.’

Genesis 31:15

He treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all the money that should have been ours.

Genesis 29:31

The Lord saw that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, so he made it possible for Leah to have children. But Rachel did not have any children.

Luke 14:26

“If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life!

Matthew 6:24

“You cannot serve two masters at the same time. You will hate one and love the other, or you will be loyal to one and not care about the other. You cannot serve God and Money at the same time.

Genesis 29:17

Leah’s eyes were gentle, but Rachel was beautiful.

Genesis 29:29

(Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.)