Genesis 29:30 “Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than…”

Genesis 29:30

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

World English Bible

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

American Standard Version

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Geneva Bible 1599

So entred he in to Rahel also, and loued also Rahel more then Leah, and serued him yet seuen yeeres more.

Darby Translation

And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.

Young's Literal Translation

And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.

Bible in Basic English

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

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Cross references

“served”

Genesis 31:41 Genesis 29:18 Genesis 31:15 1 Samuel 18:17–27 Hosea 12:12 Genesis 30:25

Genesis 31:41 · BSB

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 29:18 · BSB

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 31:15 · BSB

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

1 Samuel 18:17–27 · BSB

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the h…

Hosea 12:12 · BSB

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.

Genesis 30:25 · BSB

Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

Also

Genesis 44:27 Genesis 29:20 Matthew 10:37 John 12:25 Genesis 44:20 Deuteronomy 21:15

Genesis 44:27 · BSB

And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 29:20 · BSB

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Matthew 10:37 · BSB

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

John 12:25 · BSB

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Genesis 44:20 · BSB

And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Deuteronomy 21:15 · BSB

If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,

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

In context

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

31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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