Genesis 29:27 “Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one i…”

Genesis 29:27

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

World English Bible

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.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Fulfill seuen yeeres for her, and we wil also giue thee this for the seruice, which thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeeres more.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

Bible in Basic English

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

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Cross references

Leviticus 18:18 Judges 14:12 Genesis 2:2–3 Judges 14:10 Genesis 8:10–12 Malachi 2:15

Leviticus 18:18 · BSB

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

Judges 14:12 · BSB

“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.

Genesis 2:2–3 · BSB

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

Judges 14:10 · BSB

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

Genesis 8:10–12 · BSB

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

Malachi 2:15 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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