Genesis 29:18

WEB

¹⁸Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

KJV

¹⁸And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

BSB

¹⁸Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

FBV

¹⁸Jacob was in love with Rachel so he promised Laban, “I'll do seven years work^[+] for you for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Related Resources

Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Hosea 12:12

¹²Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Israel served to get a wife. For a wife he tended flocks and herds.

¹⁶“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ¹⁷If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Genesis 34:12

¹²Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

2 Samuel 3:14

¹⁴David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Genesis 29:20

²⁰Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 31:41

⁴¹These 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.

Genesis 29:30

³⁰He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Hosea 3:2

²So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer^[+] and a half of barley.