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Read›Genesis›Chapter 29

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel

Genesis 29:27

In 11 translations

BSB
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
KJV
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
WEB
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
ASV
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.
LSV
fulfill the period of seven [for] this one, and we also give to you this one, for the service which you serve with me yet seven other years.”
YLT
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.'
DBY
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.
DRC
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.
GNV
Fulfill seuen yeeres for her, and we wil also giue thee this for the seruice, which thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeeres more.
JPS
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.'
LXXE
Fulfil then her sevens, and I will give to thee her also in return for thy labour, which thou labourest with me, yet seven other years.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
מַלֵּ֖א שְׁבֻ֣עַ זֹ֑את וְנִתְּנָ֨ה לְךָ֜ גַּם־אֶת־זֹ֗את בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲבֹ֣ד עִמָּדִ֔י ע֖וֹד שֶֽׁבַע־שָׁנִ֥ים אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
Συντέλεσον οὖν τὰ ἕβδομα ταύτης, καὶ δώσω σοι καὶ ταύτην ἀντὶ τῆς ἐργασίας, ἧς ἐργᾷ παρʼ ἐμοὶ ἔτι ἑπτὰ ἔτη ἕτερα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Leviticus 18:18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
  • Judges 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
  • Judges 14:10Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
  • Genesis 8:10–12Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the…
  • Genesis 2:2–3And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of…
  • Malachi 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
  • 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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