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Genesis 29:20

WEB

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

KJV

20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

BSB

20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

FBV

20Jacob worked for Laban for seven years, but to him they seemed like just a few days because he really loved her.

Related Resources

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

Extra References

1 Corinthians 13:7

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.


Ephesians 5:2

2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.


Hosea 12:12

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


Song of Solomon 8:6-7

6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.[+] Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.7[+] Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.


Genesis 24:67

67Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.


Genesis 30:26

26Give 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.”


2 Corinthians 5:14

14For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.