Genesis 29:18

The Scriptures 2009

And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

And Yitsḥaq brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. And he took Riḇqah and she became his wife, and he loved her. Thus Yitsḥaq was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:19

And Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 29:20

So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Genesis 29:30

And he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than Lĕ’ah. And he served with Laḇan still another seven years.

Genesis 30:26

Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for 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

Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.

2 Samuel 3:14

Dawiḏ then sent messengers to Ishbosheth son of Sha’ul, saying, “Give me my wife Miḵal, to whom I became engaged for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Hosea 12:12

And when Ya‛aqoḇ fled to the country of Aram, Yisra’ĕl served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and one and one-half ḥomers of barley.