Genesis 29:30
Good News Translation
Jacob had intercourse with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban another seven years.

New Revised Standard Version
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years.

New American Bible
Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.

he loved.

Genesis 29:20,31 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love. . . .

Genesis 44:20,27 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

John 12:25 Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.

served.

Genesis 29:18 And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

Genesis 30:25,26 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land. . . .

Genesis 31:15,41 Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us? . . .

1 Samuel 18:17-27 And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him. . . .

Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
29To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant. 30And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
Cross References
Genesis 29:17
But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

Genesis 29:18
And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

Genesis 29:29
To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.

Genesis 29:31
And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

Genesis 31:41
And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

Genesis 29:29
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