Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, *I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.*
Genesis 30:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you. American Standard Version (1901) Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee. Common English Bible Give me my wives and children whom I’ve worked for, and I will go. You know the work I’ve done for you.” Catholic Public Domain Version Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee. |
Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, *I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.*
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Le'ah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Lavan said to Ya`akov, *What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Ya`akov answered Lavan, *Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
Ya`akov fled into the country of Aram, and Yisra'el served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.