Genesis 29:18 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב	vai.ye.'e.Hav	and he loved	H157 →
יַעֲקֹ֖ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רָחֵ֑ל	ra.Chel	Rachel	H7354 →
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙	'e.'e.va.de.Kha	I will serve you	H5647 →
שֶׁ֣בַע	She.va'	seven	H7651 →
שָׁנִ֔ים	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
בְּרָחֵ֥ל	be.ra.Chel	for Rachel	H7354 →
בִּתְּךָ֖	bi.te.Kha	daughter your	H1323 →
הַקְּטַנָּֽה׃	ha.ke.ta.Nah	<the> young	H6996 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 29:30
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
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 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 31:15
  Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
- Genesis 29:20
  So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- Matthew 10:37
  Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Genesis 44:27
  And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Through
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!
leads to
- Genesis 31:7
  And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- 2 Corinthians 11:26
  In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger…
Through
Genesis 34:12
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
leads to
- 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.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.Exodus 22:16–17If 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 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”Genesis 29:30Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Genesis 31:41Thus 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!2 Samuel 3:14Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”Hosea 3:2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.2 Samuel 13:1After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.Genesis 29:17Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.1 Samuel 18:25Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.Genesis 46:19The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.Deuteronomy 21:15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,Genesis 29:21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

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