Genesis 29:30
in Genesis 29Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
KJV
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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This verse in Genesis 29
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah
on Genesis 29:29-30
Bilhah goes to Rachel as Zilpah went to Leah. The two maidservants will bear Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher, four of the twelve tribes of Israel. Verse 30 says Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. He works another seven years of service for her.
This site's exposition
he loved Rachel more than Leah
Jacob gave Laban seven more years of work for Rachel, whom he loved more than Leah. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the unloved of verse 31 by this measure, Leah loved less than she ought to have been. Her sons come next.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
In that journey Jacob took two wives, and those two wives prefigured the two people of the Jews and the Gentiles. For at Christ's coming not a small number even of the Jewish people are read to have believed in him, and again in the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And he went in also unto Rachel,.... Cohabited with her as his wife: and he loved also Rachel more than Leah; she was his first love, and he retained the same love for her he ever had; as appears by his willingness to agree to the same condition of seven years' servitude more for her sake, and which he performed as follows: and served with him, yet seven other years; that is, Jacob served so many years with Laban after he had married his two daughters, and fulfilled the weeks of feasting for each of them.
The words behind it
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּבֹא֙ | vaiyavo' | and he went | H935 → | 2568 times |
| גַּ֣ם | gam | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| רָחֵ֔ל | rachel | Rachel | H7354 → | 47 times |
| וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב | vaiyeehav | and he loved | H157 → | 211 times |
| גַּֽם־ | gam- | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| רָחֵ֖ל | rachel | Rachel | H7354 → | 47 times |
| מִלֵּאָ֑ה | mileah | more than Leah | H3812 → | 34 times |
| וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ד | vaiyaavod | and he served | H5647 → | 288 times |
| עִמּ֔וֹ | imo | with him | H5973 → | 1050 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 |
וַיָּבֹא֙and he went
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
גַּ֣םalso
gamH1571 →769 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
רָחֵ֔לRachel
rachelH7354 →47 times
וַיֶּאֱהַ֥בand he loved
vaiyeehavH157 →211 times
גַּֽם־also
gam-H1571 →769 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
רָחֵ֖לRachel
rachelH7354 →47 times
מִלֵּאָ֑הmore than Leah
mileahH3812 →34 times
וַיַּעֲבֹ֣דand he served
vaiyaavodH5647 →288 times
עִמּ֔וֹwith him
imoH5973 →1050 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
Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
it leads to
- Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Song of Solomon 8:6–7
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest…
- Hosea 12:12
Through
Genesis 29:18Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
it leads to
- 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!
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 22:16–17
If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.
- Genesis 31:41
Through
Genesis 31:15Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
it leads to
- Genesis 29:15–20
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Genesis 29:15–20
Through
Genesis 44:27And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
it leads to
- Genesis 46:19
The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 46:19
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Genesis
Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsLeahJacob's unloved first wife, on whom the LORD's eye fell — the mother of Judah, the messianic tribe, and of Levi, the priestly trib…
- PersonPatriarchsRachelJacob's beloved wife; mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who dies on the road to Bethlehem — later wept for in the prophets (Jer 31:15…
- PersonPatriarchsJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.
This page draws on Caesarius of Arles, SERMON 88.2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.