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BETROTHAL

Of Jacob GEN 29:18-30

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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 him. 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 yet seven other years.”
Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
Genesis 29:29
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, 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 yet seven other years.
Deuteronomy 20:7
What man is there who has pledged to be married 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.”
Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
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.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).