Genesis 29:27 Parallel Translations

Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you'll have to work for me another seven years."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

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.

BBE:

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

DBY:

Fulfil the week with this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.

ERV:

Fulfill 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.

JPS:

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.'

WBS:

Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

WEB:

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

YLT:

fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

Genesis 29:27 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

29:27 We will give thee this also - Hereby he drew Jacob into the sin and snare, and disquiet of multiplying wives. Jacob did not design it, but to have kept as true to Rachel as his father had done to Rebekah; he that had lived without a wife to the eighty fourth year of his age could then have been very well content with one: but Laban to dispose of his two daughters without portions, and to get seven years service more out of Jacob, thus imposeth upon him, and draws him into such a strait, that he had some colourable reason for marrying them both.

MHC:

29:15-30 During the month that Jacob spent as a guest, he was not idle. Wherever we are, it is good to employ ourselves in some useful business. Laban was desirous that Jacob should continue with him. Inferior relations must not be imposed upon; it is our duty to reward them. Jacob made known to Laban the affection he had for his daughter Rachel. And having no wordly goods with which to endow her, he promises seven years' service Love makes long and hard services short and easy; hence we read of the labour of love, Heb 6:10. If we know how to value the happiness of heaven, the sufferings of this present time will be as nothing to us. An age of work will be but as a few days to those that love God, and long for Christ's appearing. Jacob, who had imposed upon his father, is imposed upon by Laban, his father-in-law, by a like deception. Herein, how unrighteous soever Laban was, the Lord was righteous: see Jud 1:7. Even the righteous, if they take a false step, are sometimes thus recompensed in the earth. And many who are not, like Jacob, in their marriage, disappointed in person, soon find themselves, as much to their grief, disappointed in the character. The choice of that relation ought to be made with good advice and thought on both sides. There is reason to believe that Laban's excuse was not true. His way of settling the matter made bad worse. Jacob was drawn into the disquiet of multiplying wives. He could not refuse Rachel, for he had espoused her; still less could he refuse Leah. As yet there was no express command against marrying more than one wife. It was in the patriarchs a sin of ignorance; but it will not justify the like practice now, when God's will is plainly made known by the Divine law, Le 18:18, and more fully since, by our Saviour, that one man and woman only must be joined together, 1Co 7:2.

CONC:

Addition Bridal Bride-feast Complete Daughter's Fulfil Fulfill Return Servant Serve Service Serving Seven Week Yet Younger

Addition Bridal Bride-Feast Complete Daughter's End Finish Fulfil Fulfill Servant Serve Service Serving Seven Week Work Younger

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