Genesis 29:18

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

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

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It would be better for her to marry you than someone else, so stay here with me.”

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob worked for Laban seven years so he could marry Rachel. But they seemed like just a few days to him because he loved Rachel very much.

Genesis 29:30

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

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well.”

Genesis 31:41

I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Ask as much as you want for the payment for the bride, and I will give it to you. Just let me marry Dinah.”

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ish-Bosheth, saying, “Give me my wife Michal. She was promised to me, and I killed a hundred Philistines to get her.”

Hosea 12:12

Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for six ounces of silver and ten bushels of barley.