Parallel Verses
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."
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.”
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.
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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Nathan
`abodah
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 29:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Deceived
26 But Laban responded, "It's not the practice of our place to give the younger one in marriage before the firstborn. 27 Fulfill the week for this daughter, then we'll give you the other one in exchange for serving me another seven years." 28 So Jacob completed another seven years' work, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 14:12
"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson told them. "If you can solve it during this week-long festival, I'll give you 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments.
Genesis 2:2-3
By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.
Genesis 8:10-12
Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
Leviticus 18:18
"You are not to marry a woman and then have sexual relations with her sister as a rival when your wife is still alive.
Judges 14:10
Later on, when his father went down to visit the woman, Samson threw a party there, since young men customarily did this.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.