Genesis 29:18

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Summary

Genesis 29:18

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

Loved

Genesis 29:20

I will serve

General references

Genesis 44:27

Bible References

Loved

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

I will serve

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 changed my wages ten times.

Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.

General references

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;