Good News TranslationWait until the week's marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years."
New Revised Standard Version
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”
Contemporary English Version
After you spend this week with Leah, you may also marry Rachel. But you will have to work for me another seven years."
New American Bible
Finish the bridal week for this one, and then the other will also be given to you in return for another seven years of service with me.”
Douay-Rheims Bible
Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
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Genesis 2:2,3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. . . .
Genesis 8:10-12 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. . . .
Leviticus 18:18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.
Judges 14:10,12 So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do. . . .
Malachi 2:15 Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
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Genesis 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
