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Genesis Chapter 29 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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BBE Genesis 29:20

And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
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DARBY Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
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KJV Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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WBT Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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WEB Genesis 29:20

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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YLT Genesis 29:20

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - And Jacob served - hard service (Genesis 31:40, 41), in keeping sheep (Hosea 12:12) - seven years for Rachel. The purity and intensity of Jacob's affection was declared not alone by the proposal of a seven years' term of servitude, - a long period of waiting for a man of fifty-seven, if not seventy-seven, years of age, - but also by the spirit in which he served his avaricious relative. Many as the days were that required to intervene before he obtained possession of his bride, they were rendered happy by the sweet society of Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. "Words breathing the purest tenderness, and expressing more emphatically than the flowery hyperboles of romantic phraseology the deep attachment of an affectionate heart" (Kalisch); words too which show the lofty appreciation Jacob had of the personal worth of his future bride.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) They seemed unto him but a few days.--Jacob was at least fifty-seven years of age, but the late marriages hitherto of the patriarchs show that they only slowly arrived at manhood. We need not be surprised, then, at the warmth of his affection, nor was it a passing emotion, but lasted all his life through. This, however, is the last of these late marriages; for Jacob's sons married when young.