Genesis 29:20
And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
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Genesis 29:20
And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
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Genesis 29:18
And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.
Genesis 29:19
And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.
Genesis 29:20
And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
Genesis 29:21
Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.
Genesis 29:22
And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.
Genesis 29:23
And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.
Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.
Genesis 29:25
And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?
Genesis 29:26
And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.
Genesis 29:27
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.
Genesis 29:28
And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.
Genesis 29:29
And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.
Genesis 29:30
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.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.
Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.
Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
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Song of Solomon 8:6
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
Song of Solomon 8:7
Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
Esther 2:17
And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
Proverbs 5:19
As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Ephesians 5:28
Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
Colossians 3:19
Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
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Hosea 12:12
And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Genesis 31:31
And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.
Genesis 44:27
And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;
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Genesis 29:11
And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.
Genesis 29:12
And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.
Genesis 29:13
And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.
Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.
Genesis 29:15
Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?
Genesis 29:16
Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29:17
And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.
Judges 14:1
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
Judges 14:2
And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.
Judges 14:3
Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.
Judges 14:4
Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.
Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.
Judges 14:6
And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)
Judges 14:7
So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.
Judges 14:8
Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.
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Genesis 27:44
And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;
Daniel 11:20
Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.
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Deuteronomy 20:7
Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
Luke 1:26
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luke 1:27
To a virgin who was to be married to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.
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Genesis 34:3
Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
Judges 14:9
And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.
Judges 14:10
Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.
2 Samuel 13:15
Then Amnon was full of hate for her, hating her with a hate greater than his earlier love for her. And he said to her, Get up and be gone.
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