Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
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Genesis 29:19
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Israel served to get a wife. For a wife he tended flocks and herds.
Genesis 29:22
Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Genesis 29:23
In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
Genesis 29:24
Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
Genesis 29:25
In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
Genesis 29:26
Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis 29:27
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.”
Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
Genesis 29:29
Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
Genesis 29:30
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
Genesis 30:25
When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
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Genesis 29:11
Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 29:12
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
Genesis 29:16
Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29:17
Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Judges 14:1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges 14:2
He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
Judges 14:3
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
Judges 14:4
But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
Judges 14:6
Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 14:7
He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
Judges 14:8
After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
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Genesis 29:21
Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
Genesis 31:15
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
1 Samuel 18:17
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
Genesis 34:3
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies.
Isaiah 7:23
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.
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2 Samuel 3:14
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
Genesis 24:53
The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Genesis 34:12
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
Exodus 22:16
“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 18:26
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
1 Samuel 18:27
David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
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Genesis 30:22
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 30:24
She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 46:19
The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Genesis 41:29
Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.
Genesis 41:54
The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Daniel 4:23
“Whereas the king saw a holy watcher coming down from the sky and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.’
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Deuteronomy 20:7
What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
Luke 1:26
Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
Luke 1:27
to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.
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Exodus 21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
Judges 14:9
He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
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Hebrews 7:3
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
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