Genesis 29:18

Modern English Version

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

Cross References

Hosea 12:12

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

Genesis 34:12

You can make the dowry and gift I must bring high, and I will give according to what you say to me. Just give me the girl to marry.”

Hosea 3:2

So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

Genesis 31:41

I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 29:30

So Jacob also had relations with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah and served Laban another seven years.

Genesis 29:20

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

Genesis 24:67

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

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 30:26

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