Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:27 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other 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. |
Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Lavan said, *It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Ya`akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as 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.
*'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
His father went down to the woman: and Shimshon made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Shimshon said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;