Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”
- KJV Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
- NKJV Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me still another seven years.”
- NASB Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me, for another seven years.”
- NLT “But wait until the bridal week is over; then we’ll give you Rachel, too—provided you promise to work another seven years for me.”
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Quick answer
Laban offers Rachel too, after Jacob completes Leah's wedding week, in exchange for another seven years of service.
Overview
Laban extracts a further seven years of labor by dangling Rachel after Leah's bridal week. His scheme doubles Jacob's service while securing both daughters' marriages. Though the resulting polygamy brings strife, God sovereignly uses these unions to raise up the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Cross-references · 7
- Lev 18:18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Judg 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- Mal 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- Judg 14:10Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- Gen 2:2–3And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Gen 8:10–12Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
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