Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
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 29:21
Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
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 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.
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 31:38
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
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Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Brothers
Genesis 24:67
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Esther 2:17
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Proverbs 5:19
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
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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 31:31
Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
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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 27:44
Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
Daniel 11:20
“Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
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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.”
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.”
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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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.
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.
2 Samuel 13:15
Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
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