Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- BSB So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- NKJV So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
- NASB So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days because of his love for her.
- NLT 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.
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Cross-references · 7
- 1 Cor 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Hos 12:12Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
- Song 8:6–7Set 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.
- Gen 24:67Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
- Gen 30:26Give 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.”
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