Genesis 29:20
Good News Translation
Jacob worked seven years so that he could have Rachel, and the time seemed like only a few days to him, because he loved her.

New Revised Standard Version
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob worked seven years for Laban, but the time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.

New American Bible
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

A.

2251. B.C.

1753. served.

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.

for the love.

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.

Songs 8:6,7 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. . . .

1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
19Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me. 20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.21And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:19
Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

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.

Genesis 31:15
Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

1 Samuel 18:23
And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ear of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.

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

Genesis 29:19
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