Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, ‘I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.’
Genesis 29:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Jacob said to Laban, ‘Since my time is complete, give me my wife, so I can sleep with her.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Finally, Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, so that I may take her to me. American Standard Version (1901) And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Common English Bible Jacob said to Laban, “The time has come. Give me my wife so that I may sleep with her.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to Laban, "Give my wife to me. For now the time has been fulfilled, so that I may go in to her." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. |
Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, ‘I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.’
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
For twenty years in your household I served you #– #fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks #– #and you have changed my wages ten times!
He went over to her and said, ‘Come, let me sleep with you,’ for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, ‘What will you give me for sleeping with me? ’
The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.’
The birth of Jesus Christ came about in this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit.
‘If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,
Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and visited his wife. ‘I want to go to my wife in her room,’ he said. But her father would not let him enter.