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Genesis 29:27

25 When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

26 Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

28 And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

29 Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
KJV
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
WEB
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
ASV
Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
DARBY
Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.
BLB
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give to you also this one for the service that you will serve with me—yet another seven years.”
ÅB
La nå Leas bryllups-uke gå til ende, så vil vi også gi deg den andre, hvis du vil tjene hos meg i syv år til.
OTB
Fullfør denne brudeuken, så skal vi gi deg den andre også, i bytte mot ytterligere syv års arbeid.»
B1930
La nu Leas bryllups-uke gå til ende, så vil vi også gi dig den andre, hvis du vil tjene hos mig i syv år til.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Leviticus 18:18

    You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

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  • Judges 14:12

    “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

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  • Judges 14:10

    Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.

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  • Genesis 2:2–3

    And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

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  • Genesis 8:10–12

    Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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  • Malachi 2:15

    Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

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  • 1 Timothy 6:10

    For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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