Genesis 29 · Verse 27

Genesis 29:27

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Genesis 29:27, King James Version

Genesis 29:27 in other translations

BSBFinish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
WEBFulfill 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.”
ASVFulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
YLTfulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'
DARBYFulfil the week with this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.
BBELet the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.
WebsterFulfill her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

What does Genesis 29:27 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Fulfill her week - The marriage feast, it appears, lasted seven days; it would not therefore have been proper to break off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited, Gen 29:22, and probably Laban wished to keep his fraud from the public eye; therefore he informs Jacob that if he will fulfill the marriage week for Leah, he will give him Rachel at the end of it, on condition of his serving seven other years. To this the necessity of the case caused Jacob to agree; and thus Laban had fourteen years' service instead of seven: for it is not likely that Jacob would have served even seven days for Leah, as his affection was wholly set on Rachel, the wife of his own choice. By this stratagem Laban gained a settlement for both his daughters. What a man soweth, that shall he reap. Jacob had before practiced deceit, and is now deceived; and Laban, the instrument of it, was afterwards deceived himself.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 29:15-30

During the month that Jacob spent as a guest, he was not idle. Wherever we are, it is good to employ ourselves in some useful business. Laban was desirous that Jacob should continue with him. Inferior relations must not be imposed upon; it is our duty to reward them. Jacob made known to Laban the affection he had for his daughter Rachel. And having no wordly goods with which to endow her, he promises seven years'…

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Genesis 29:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מַלֵּ֖אma.Le'completeH4390
שְׁבֻ֣עַshe.Vu.a'[the] week ofH7620
זֹ֑אתZotthis [one]H2063
וְנִתְּנָ֨הve.ni.te.Nahso let us giveH5414
לְךָ֜le.Khato <the> you
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
זֹ֗אתZotthis [one]H2063
בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ba.'a.vo.Dahfor [the] serviceH5656
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
תַּעֲבֹ֣דta.'a.Vodyou will serveH5647
עִמָּדִ֔י'i.ma.Diwith meH5978
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750
שֶֽׁבַע\־she.va'-sevenH7651
שָׁנִ֥יםsha.NimyearsH8141
אֲחֵרֽוֹת\׃'a.che.RotanotherH312

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 29:27

  • Leviticus 18:18

    Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

  • Judges 14:12

    And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

  • Judges 14:10

    So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

  • Genesis 2:2-3

    And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

  • Genesis 8:10-12

    And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

  • Malachi 2:15

    And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • 1 Timothy 6:10

    For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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2:2,3; 8:10-12; Le 18:18; Jud 14:10,12; Mal 2:15; 1Ti 6:10
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Context

  • Genesis 29:26

    And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

  • Genesis 29:27

    Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

  • Genesis 29:28

    And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

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Genesis 29:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Cumple la semana de ésta, y se te dará también la otra, por el servicio que hicieres conmigo otros siete años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Accomplis la semaine de celle-ci, et nous te donnerons aussi celle-là, pour le service que tu feras chez moi encore sept autres années.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Vollende die Woche mit dieser, so wollen wir dir auch jene geben, um den Dienst, den du bei mir dienen sollst noch andere sieben Jahre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Imple hebdomadam dierum hujus copulæ: et hanc quoque dabo tibi pro opere quo serviturus es mihi septem annis aliis.