Genesis 29:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 29:20

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

Genesis 29:30

Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years. Jacob’s Children.

Genesis 30:26

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

Genesis 31:41

Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.” Revenge of Jacob’s Sons.

2 Samuel 3:14

At the same time David sent messengers to Ishbaal, son of Saul, to say, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed by paying a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

Hosea 12:12

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 3:2

So I acquired her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.