Genesis 29:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. 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 any other man; stay with me.”

Genesis 29:20

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

Genesis 29:30

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 30:26

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

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been 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 34:12

Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ishbaal, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I became engaged at the price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Hosea 12:12

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

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.