Genesis 29:27

New International Reader's Version

Complete this daughter’s wedding week. Then we’ll give you the younger one also. But you will have to work for another seven years.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:20

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

Genesis 29:26

Laban replied, “It isn’t our practice here to give the younger daughter to be married before the older one.

Genesis 29:28

So Jacob completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Genesis 31:41

That’s what it was like for the 20 years I was living with you. I worked for 14 years to marry your two daughters. I worked for six years to get my share of your flocks. You changed my pay ten times.

Leviticus 18:18

“ ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as another wife and have sex with her. Do not do it while your wife is still living.

Malachi 2:15

Hasn’t the one God made the two of you one also? Both of you belong to him in body and spirit. And why has the one God made you one? Because he wants his children to be like him. So be careful. Don’t be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.

1 Timothy 6:10

Love for money causes all kinds of evil. Some people want to get rich. They have wandered away from the faith. They have wounded themselves with many sorrows.

Judges 14:10

Samson’s father went down to see the woman. Samson had a feast prepared there. He was following the practice of young men when they married their wives.

Judges 14:12

“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to the companions. “The feast will last for seven days. Give me the answer to the riddle before the feast ends. If you do, I’ll give you 30 linen shirts. I’ll also give you 30 sets of clothes.