Genesis 29:20 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד	vai.ya.'a.Vod	and he served	H5647 →
יַעֲקֹ֛ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
בְּרָחֵ֖ל	be.ra.Chel	for Rachel	H7354 →
שֶׁ֣בַע	She.va'	seven	H7651 →
שָׁנִ֑ים	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
וַיִּהְי֤וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
בְעֵינָיו֙	ve.'ei.Nav	in view his	H5869 →
כְּיָמִ֣ים	ke.ya.Mim	like days	H3117 →
אֲחָדִ֔ים	'a.cha.Dim	one<s>	H259 →
בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ	be.'a.ha.va.To	in love his	H160 →
אֹתָֽהּ׃	'o.Tah	<obj.> her	H853 →

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
1 Corinthians 13:7
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
leads to
- 1 Peter 4:8
  Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4
  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 2 Timothy 2:24
  And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
- Proverbs 10:12
  Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Through
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.
leads to
- John 13:34
  A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- Galatians 2:20
  I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
- Colossians 3:14
  And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

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.

1 Corinthians 13:7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.Song of Solomon 8:6–7Set 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 blaze of all.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 29:30Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Genesis 30:26Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.2 Samuel 13:1After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.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 29:18Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”1 Thessalonians 1:3and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.Genesis 29:21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”Judges 16:15“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”Genesis 34:19The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.

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