Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
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.
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
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