Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Complete the week of this one, then I will also give you the other, {on the condition that you will work for me} another seven years."
New American Standard Bible
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which
King James Version
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Holman Bible
Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”
International Standard Version
Fulfill the week for this daughter, then we'll give you the other one in exchange for serving me another seven years."
A Conservative Version
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shall serve with me yet seven other years.
American Standard Version
Fulfil 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.
Amplified
Finish the week [of the wedding feast] for Leah; then we will give you Rachel also, and in return you shall work for me for seven more years.”
Bible in Basic English
Let 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.
Darby Translation
Fulfil 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.
Julia Smith Translation
Complete her seven, and we will give to thee also this for work which thou shalt work with me yet other seven years.
King James 2000
Fulfill her week, and we will give you this other also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.
Modern King James verseion
Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more.
NET Bible
Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
Fulfil the week of this one, - then must we give thee, the other one also, for the service wherewith thou shalt serve with me, yet seven years more.
Webster
Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
World English Bible
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
fulfil 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.'
Themes
Children » Instance of, leah and rachel
Contracts » First contract between laban and jacob for laban's daughter
Covetousness » Instances of » Laban » Deceiving » jacob
Dishonesty » Instances of » Laban's treatment of jacob
jacob » Serves fourteen years for leah and rachel
Laban » Jacob becomes his servant
Laban » Receives jacob, and gives him his daughters in marriage
Marriage » Jacob and his wives
Rachel » Jacob serves laban for an additional seven years to obtain her as his wife
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 29:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Deceived
26 Then Laban said, "{It is not the custom} in our country to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 Complete the week of this one, then I will also give you the other, {on the condition that you will work for me} another seven years." 28 And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this [one], then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife.
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you can fully explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it out], I will give to you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.
Genesis 2:2-3
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
Genesis 8:10-12
And he waited another seven days, and {again he sent out} the dove from the ark.
Leviticus 18:18
And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.
Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared there a feast, as young men were accustomed to doing this.
Malachi 2:15
{Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.