Genesis 29:20
18 Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19 Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
21 Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
22 So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- KJV
- And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- WEB
- Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- ASV
- And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- DARBY
- And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
- BLB
- And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were to him a few days, because of his love for her.
- ÅB
- Så tjente Jakob i syv år for Rakel; og disse år syntes han var noen få dager, fordi han hadde henne kjær.
- OTB
- Jakob tjente syv år for Rakel, men de virket som bare noen få dager for ham på grunn av hans kjærlighet til henne.
- B1930
- Så tjente Jakob i syv år for Rakel; og disse år syntes han var nogen få dager, fordi han hadde henne kjær.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 13:7
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Read in contextHosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
Read in contextEphesians 5:2
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:6–7
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Read in contextGenesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Read in contextGenesis 30:26
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:14
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
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