Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Loved
I will serve
General references
Bible References
Loved
Genesis 29:20
Jacob worked seven years for Laban. The time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.
I will serve
Genesis 31:41
I have been in your house twenty years! I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters. I kept your flock for six years. You changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask anything as the bride price, no matter how expensive. I will do anything. Just let me marry Dinah.
Exodus 22:16
When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sexual intercourse with her, he must pay the bride price and marry her.
2 Samuel 3:14
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth to give him this message: Give me back my wife Michal! I bought her for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria. Israel worked to get a wife. He took care of sheep to pay for her.
General references
Genesis 44:27
Our father said, 'You know that my wife Rachel bore me only two sons.