Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loves Rachel and says, “I serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter”:
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 29:30And he also goes in to Rachel, and he also loves Rachel more than Leah; and he serves with him yet seven other years.
Genesis 34:12multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.”
2 Samuel 3:14And David sends messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
Hosea 12:12And Jacob flees to the country of Aram, || And Israel serves for a wife, || Indeed, he has kept watch for a wife.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:16-31
Jacob's Marriage. ( b. c. 1753.) 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? 16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I… Read the whole commentary →