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 served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
I will serve
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
Exodus 22:16
"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
2 Samuel 3:14
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
General references
Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons: