Parallel Verses
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 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.
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."
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.
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 "It is not our custom here," Laban replied, "to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn. 27 Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work." 28 Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah's bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, "I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.
Genesis 2:2-3
By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
Genesis 8:10-12
He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
Leviticus 18:18
You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.
Judges 14:10
Then Samson's father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.
Malachi 2:15
No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.