Genesis 29:18
“And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Cross-References
“And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.”
“And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”
“So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:”
“Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.”
“And David sent messengers to Ish–bosheth Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”