Genesis 29:18

New International Version

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

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

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”

Genesis 29:20

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

Genesis 29:30

Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

Genesis 31:41

It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

2 Samuel 3:14

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

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Aram; Israel served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.