Genesis 29:30
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis 29:30 in other translations
| BSB | Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years. |
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| WEB | He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years. |
| ASV | And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. |
| YLT | And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years. |
| DARBY | And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years. |
| BBE | Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years. |
| Webster | And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. |
What does Genesis 29:30 mean?
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'…
Genesis 29:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 29:30
- Genesis 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 44:27
And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
- Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Genesis 31:15
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- 1 Samuel 18:17-27
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. …
- John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
- Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
- Genesis 29:31
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 30:25-26
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
- Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
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Context
- Genesis 29:29
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
- Genesis 29:30
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:31
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y entró también á Rachêl: y amóla también más que á Lea: y sirvió con él aún otros siete años. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il vint aussi vers Rachel; et il aima aussi Rachel plus que Léa. Et il servit Laban encore sept autres années. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er ging auch zu Rahel ein; und er liebte auch Rahel mehr als Lea. Und er diente bei ihm noch andere sieben Jahre. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tandemque potitus optatis nuptiis, amorem sequentis priori prætulit, serviens apud eum septem annis aliis. |