Genesis 29:18
Good News Translation
Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, "I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel."

New Revised Standard Version
Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Contemporary English Version
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he answered, "If you will let me marry Rachel, I'll work seven years for you."

New American Bible
Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

loved.

Genesis 29:20,30 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love. . . .

I will serve.

Genesis 31:41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

Exodus 22:16,17 If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife. . . .

2 Samuel 3:14 And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

Hosea 3:2 And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
17But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance. 18And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.19Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:67
Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

Genesis 29:19
Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

Genesis 29:30
And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

Genesis 29:17
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