TOPICAL BIBLE
Betrothal
16 references in this topic.
Genesis 29:18Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”Genesis 29:19Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”Genesis 29:20Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.Genesis 29:21Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”Genesis 29:22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.Genesis 29:23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.Genesis 29:24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.Genesis 29:25It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Genesis 29:26Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.Genesis 29:27Fulfill 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.”Genesis 29:28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.Genesis 29:29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.Genesis 29:30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Deuteronomy 20:7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”Matthew 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.Luke 1:27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
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