Genesis 29:27
New International Version
Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”

New Living Translation
“But wait until the bridal week is over; then we’ll give you Rachel, too—provided you promise to work another seven years for me.”

English Standard Version
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

Berean Standard Bible
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

King James Bible
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

New King James Version
Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me still another seven years.”

New American Standard Bible
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me, for another seven years.”

NASB 1995
“Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.”

NASB 1977
“Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.”

Amplified Bible
Finish the week [of the wedding feast] for Leah; then we will give you Rachel also, and in return you shall work for me for seven more years.”

Christian Standard Bible
Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Complete the wedding of this one and I shall give her to you also for the service that you will serve again with me for seven more years.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Contemporary English Version
After you spend this week with Leah, you may also marry Rachel. But you will have to work for me another seven years."

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
Fulfill 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you'll have to work for me another seven years."

Good News Translation
Wait until the week's marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years."

International Standard Version
Fulfill the week for this daughter, then we'll give you the other one in exchange for serving me another seven years."

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.'

Literal Standard Version
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.”

Majority Standard Bible
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

New American Bible
Finish the bridal week for this one, and then the other will also be given to you in return for another seven years of service with me.”

NET Bible
Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work."

New Revised Standard Version
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

New Heart English Bible
Fulfill the week of this one, and I will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me another seven years."

Webster's Bible Translation
Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

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 for seven more years.”

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.'

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Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
26Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older. 27Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.” 28And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.…

Cross References
Genesis 29:26
Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Genesis 29:28
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week's celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Genesis 31:41
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household--fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks--and you have changed my wages ten times!


Treasury of Scripture

Fulfill her week, and we will give you this also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.

week.

Genesis 2:2,3
And 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…

Genesis 8:10-12
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; …

Leviticus 18:18
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

we will.

Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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Genesis 29
1. Jacob comes to the well of Haran.
9. He becomes acquainted with Rachel.
13. Laban entertains him.
18. Jacob covenants for Rachel.
23. He is deceived by Laban with Leah.
28. He marries also Rachel, and serves for her seven years more.
32. Leah bears Reuben;
33. Simeon;
34. Levi;
35. and Judah.














(27) Fulfil her week.--The marriage festival seems to have lasted a week, as was the custom in later times (Judges 14:12), and. to have forsaken Leah during this period would have been to offer her an insult which her brothers must have avenged. Appeased, therefore, by the promise of Rachel as soon as the seven days are over, Jacob, rather than quarrel with the whole family, submits to the wrong. The Hebrew is remarkable, "Fulfil the week of this, and we will give to thee also the this for the service." But in Hebrew this . . . this means the one and the other (Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:41), and it is a mistake to suppose that the language will allow the first this to be understood of any one but Leah, and the second this of any one but Rachel.

Verse 27. - Fulfill her week, - literally, make full the week of this otis, i.e. of Leah, if Leah was given to Jacob on the first night of the festivities (Calmer, Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch, Lange, Ainsworth); but id Leah was married at the close of the seven days, then it must refer to Rachel s week (Bush, Murphy) - and we (including Laban's wife and eldest son, as in Genesis 24:50, 55) will give thee this also (i.e. Rachel) for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Almost every motive that is mean, base, and despicable appears in this behavior of Laban's; if he attached little value to his daughters' affections, he had a keen appreciation of Jacob's qualities as a shepherd.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Finish
מַלֵּ֖א (mal·lê)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

this
זֹ֑את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

week’s celebration,
שְׁבֻ֣עַ (šə·ḇu·a‘)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7620: A period of seven (days, years), heptad, week

and we will give
וְנִתְּנָ֨ה (wə·nit·tə·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

you
לְךָ֜ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

the younger one
זֹ֗את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

in return for
תַּעֲבֹ֣ד (ta·‘ă·ḇōḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave

another
אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃ (’ă·ḥê·rō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 312: Hinder, next, other

seven
שֶֽׁבַע־ (še·ḇa‘-)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

years
שָׁנִ֥ים (šā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year

of work.”
בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ (ba·‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5656: Work of any kind


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