Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. New Living Translation So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days. English Standard Version So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. Berean Standard Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her. King James Bible And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. New King James Version So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her. New American Standard Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days because of his love for her. NASB 1995 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. NASB 1977 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. Legacy Standard Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his sight but a few days because of his love for her. Amplified Bible So Jacob served [Laban] for seven years for [the right to marry] Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. Christian Standard Bible So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. Holman Christian Standard Bible So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. American Standard Version And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And Yaquuv worked for Rakhyl seven years, and they were in his eyes as a few days, because he loved her. Brenton Septuagint Translation And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were before him as a few days, by reason of his loving her. Contemporary English Version Jacob worked seven years for Laban, but the time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much. Douay-Rheims Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love. English Revised Version And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. GOD'S WORD® Translation Jacob worked seven years in return for Rachel, but the years seemed like only a few days to him because he loved her. Good News Translation Jacob worked seven years so that he could have Rachel, and the time seemed like only a few days to him, because he loved her. International Standard Version Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but it seemed like only a few days because of his love for her. JPS Tanakh 1917 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Literal Standard Version and Jacob serves for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her. Majority Standard Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her. New American Bible So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her. NET Bible So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great. New Revised Standard Version So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. New Heart English Bible Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and it seemed only a few days to him because of his love for her. Webster's Bible Translation And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her. World English Bible Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. Young's Literal Translation and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel…19Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.” 20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her. 21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”… Cross References Genesis 29:19 Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me." Genesis 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." Genesis 31:15 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 18:23 But when Saul's servants relayed these words to David, he replied, "Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed." Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife--for a wife he tended sheep. Treasury of Scripture And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her. A. Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. for the love. Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Song of Solomon 8:6,7 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame… 1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Jump to Previous Eyes Few Jacob Love Loving Rachel Seemed Served Serveth Seven Single Time WorkJump to Next Eyes Few Jacob Love Loving Rachel Seemed Served Serveth Seven Single Time WorkGenesis 29 1. Jacob comes to the well of Haran.9. He becomes acquainted with Rachel. 13. Laban entertains him. 18. Jacob covenants for Rachel. 23. He is deceived by Laban with Leah. 28. He marries also Rachel, and serves for her seven years more. 32. Leah bears Reuben; 33. Simeon; 34. Levi; 35. and Judah. (20) They seemed unto him but a few days.--Jacob was at least fifty-seven years of age, but the late marriages hitherto of the patriarchs show that they only slowly arrived at manhood. We need not be surprised, then, at the warmth of his affection, nor was it a passing emotion, but lasted all his life through. This, however, is the last of these late marriages; for Jacob's sons married when young.Verse 20. - And Jacob served - hard service (Genesis 31:40, 41), in keeping sheep (Hosea 12:12) - seven years for Rachel. The purity and intensity of Jacob's affection was declared not alone by the proposal of a seven years' term of servitude, - a long period of waiting for a man of fifty-seven, if not seventy-seven, years of age, - but also by the spirit in which he served his avaricious relative. Many as the days were that required to intervene before he obtained possession of his bride, they were rendered happy by the sweet society of Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. "Words breathing the purest tenderness, and expressing more emphatically than the flowery hyperboles of romantic phraseology the deep attachment of an affectionate heart" (Kalisch); words too which show the lofty appreciation Jacob had of the personal worth of his future bride. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew So Jacobיַעֲקֹ֛ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc served וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד (way·ya·‘ă·ḇōḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave seven שֶׁ֣בַע (še·ḇa‘) Number - feminine singular Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number years שָׁנִ֑ים (šā·nîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8141: A year for Rachel, בְּרָחֵ֖ל (bə·rā·ḥêl) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 7354: Rachel -- a wife of Jacob yet it seemed בְעֵינָיו֙ (ḇə·‘ê·nāw) Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain [but] a few אֲחָדִ֔ים (’ă·ḥā·ḏîm) Number - masculine plural Strong's 259: United, one, first days כְּיָמִ֣ים (kə·yā·mîm) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day because of his love בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ (bə·’a·hă·ḇā·ṯōw) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f for her. אֹתָֽהּ׃ (’ō·ṯāh) Direct object marker | third person feminine singular Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case Links Genesis 29:20 NIVGenesis 29:20 NLT Genesis 29:20 ESV Genesis 29:20 NASB Genesis 29:20 KJV Genesis 29:20 BibleApps.com Genesis 29:20 Biblia Paralela Genesis 29:20 Chinese Bible Genesis 29:20 French Bible Genesis 29:20 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 29:20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel (Gen. 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