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Genesis 29:27

Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

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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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Original language & word study

16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מַלֵּ֖אma.Le'completeH4390 →
שְׁבֻ֣עַshe.Vu.a'[the] week ofH7620 →
זֹ֑אתZotthis [one]H2063 →
וְנִתְּנָ֨הve.ni.te.Nahso let us giveH5414 →
לְךָ֜le.Khato <the> you
גַּם־gam-alsoH1571 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
זֹ֗אתZotthis [one]H2063 →
בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ba.'a.vo.Dahfor [the] serviceH5656 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
תַּעֲבֹ֣דta.'a.Vodyou will serveH5647 →
עִמָּדִ֔י'i.ma.Diwith meH5978 →
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750 →
שֶֽׁבַע־she.va'-sevenH7651 →
שָׁנִ֥יםsha.NimyearsH8141 →
אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃'a.che.RotanotherH312 →

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Leviticus 18:18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.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 of clothes.Judges 14:10Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.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 wife of your youth.Genesis 8:10–12Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.Genesis 2:2–3And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.Ruth 4:10Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

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