Genesis 29:18

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Jacob {H3290} loved {H157} Rachel {H7354}; and said {H559}, I will serve {H5647} thee seven {H7651} years {H8141} for Rachel {H7354} thy younger {H6996} daughter {H1323}.

Ya'akov had fallen in love with Rachel and said, "I will work for you seven years in exchange for Rachel your younger daughter."

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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Cross-References

  • Hosea 12:12 (7 votes)

    And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

  • Exodus 22:16 (6 votes)

    ¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Exodus 22:17 (6 votes)

    If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Genesis 34:12 (4 votes)

    Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

  • Genesis 29:20 (3 votes)

    And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.

  • 2 Samuel 3:14 (3 votes)

    And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

  • Hosea 3:2 (3 votes)

    So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: