¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”^(A)

Social and Religious Laws

¹⁶ “When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.^{(A) 17} But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.

¹² Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the young woman to be my wife.”^(A)

⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.^(A)

² So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.^[a](A)

¹⁴ Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ishbaal,^[a] saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I became engaged at the price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”^(A)

³⁰ So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban^[a] for another seven years.^(A)

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.