Genesis 29:27
in Genesis 29Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
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.
KJV
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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This verse in Genesis 29
Commentary
5 notes on this verse(Chapter 29, Verse 27) Complete therefore this week, and I will give you this also. After Jacob was deceived by Laban and took Rachel as his wife instead of Leah, it is said that Laban told him to fulfill seven days after the wedding of the first sister, and then he could have Rachel, for whom he would serve another seven years. Therefore, contrary to what some think, Rachel did not become Jacob's wife after another seven years, but after seven days from the wedding of the first wife.
This site's exposition
Finish this week's celebration
on Genesis 29:27-28
Jerome reads the week as the marriage week, and the verses bear him out. Jacob finishes the week and is given Rachel, then serves the second seven years afterward. Both sisters are his inside a fortnight. Fourteen years of work are owed for the younger daughter.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Fulfil her week,....
Hereby he drew Jacob into the sin, and snare, and disquiet, of multiplying wives, which remains a blot in his escutcheon, and will be so to the end of the world.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Fulfill her week - The marriage feast, it appears, lasted seven days; it would not therefore have been proper to break off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited, Gen 29:22, and probably Laban wished to keep his fraud from the public eye; therefore he informs Jacob that if he will fulfill the marriage week for Leah, he will give him Rachel at the end of it, on condition of his serving seven other years.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מַלֵּ֖א | male' | complete | H4390 → | 249 times |
| שְׁבֻ֣עַ | shevua' | [the] week of | H7620 → | |
| זֹ֑את | zot | this [one] | H2063 → | 603 times |
| וְנִתְּנָ֨ה | venitenah | so let us give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לְךָ֜ | lekha | to <the> you | ||
| גַּם־ | gam- | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| זֹ֗את | zot | this [one] | H2063 → | 603 times |
| בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ | baavodah | for [the] service | H5656 → | |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| תַּעֲבֹ֣ד | taavod | you will serve | H5647 → | 288 times |
| עִמָּדִ֔י | ʾimadi | with me | H5978 → | 42 times |
| ע֖וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| שֶֽׁבַע־ | sheva'- | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| שָׁנִ֥ים | shanim | years | H8141 → | 877 times |
| אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃ | ʾacherot | another | H312 → | 166 times |
מַלֵּ֖אcomplete
male'H4390 →249 times
שְׁבֻ֣עַ[the] week of
shevua'H7620 →
זֹ֑אתthis [one]
zotH2063 →603 times
וְנִתְּנָ֨הso let us give
venitenahH5414 →2011 times
לְךָ֜to <the> you
lekha
גַּם־also
gam-H1571 →769 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
זֹ֗אתthis [one]
zotH2063 →603 times
בַּעֲבֹדָה֙for [the] service
baavodahH5656 →
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
תַּעֲבֹ֣דyou will serve
taavodH5647 →288 times
עִמָּדִ֔יwith me
ʾimadiH5978 →42 times
ע֖וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
שֶֽׁבַע־seven
sheva'-H7651 →394 times
שָׁנִ֥יםyears
shanimH8141 →877 times
אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃another
ʾacherotH312 →166 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Malachi 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the…
it leads to
- Matthew 19:4–6
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- Mark 10:6–8
However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
- Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your…
- Genesis 2:20–24
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
- Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Matthew 19:4–6
Through
Judges 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
- Genesis 45:22
He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.
- Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, pose a riddle; speak a parable to the house of Israel
- 1 Kings 10:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.