KJV 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.
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Genesis 29:27
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
WEB 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.”
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s 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.’
Surrounding context — Genesis 29
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מַלֵּ֖אH4390 · ma.leto fillשְׁבֻ֣עַH7620 · sha.vu.aWeeksזֹ֑אתH2063 · zotthisוְנִתְּנָ֨הH5414 · na.tanto give: giveלְךָ֜H9031 · kayouגַּם־H1571 · gamalsoאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]זֹ֗אתH2063 · zotthisבַּעֲבֹדָה֙H5656 · a.vo.dahserviceאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichתַּעֲבֹ֣דH5647 · a.vadto serveעִמָּדִ֔יH5978 · im.madwith meע֖וֹדH5750 · odstillשֶֽׁבַע־H7651 · she.vasevenשָׁנִ֥יםH8141 · sha.nehyearאֲחֵרֽוֹת׃H312 · a.cheranother
Cross-references
Leviticus 18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].Judges 14:12And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:Malachi 2:15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.Genesis 8:10-12And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;Judges 14:10So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.Genesis 2:2-3And 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 made.1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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