Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
In Context
17Leah's eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
Cross References
Genesis 29:30So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, but he loved Rachel more than Leah. So Jacob served Laban for seven more years.
Genesis 34:12Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.”
2 Samuel 3:14Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid a price of one hundred Philistine foreskins.”
Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram; 1 Israel worked in order to get a wife; 1 and he kept flocks of sheep to get a wife. 1
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 →