So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:27 - English Standard Version 2016 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Finish the [wedding feast] week [for Leah]; then we will give you [Rachel] also, and you shall work for me yet seven more years in return. American Standard Version (1901) Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Common English Bible Complete the celebratory week with this woman. Then I will give you this other woman too for your work, if you work for me seven more years.” Catholic Public Domain Version Complete a week of days with this mating. And then I will give this one to you also, for the service that you will provide to me for another seven years." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years. |
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
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.
And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,