Genesis Chapter 29 verse 27 Holy Bible
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Fulfill 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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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."
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Fulfill her week, - literally, make full the week of this otis, i.e. of Leah, if Leah was given to Jacob on the first night of the festivities (Calmer, Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch, Lange, Ainsworth); but id Leah was married at the close of the seven days, then it must refer to Rachel s week (Bush, Murphy) - and we (including Laban's wife and eldest son, as in Genesis 24:50, 55) will give thee this also (i.e. Rachel) for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Almost every motive that is mean, base, and despicable appears in this behavior of Laban's; if he attached little value to his daughters' affections, he had a keen appreciation of Jacob's qualities as a shepherd.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Fulfil her week.--The marriage festival seems to have lasted a week, as was the custom in later times (Judges 14:12), and. to have forsaken Leah during this period would have been to offer her an insult which her brothers must have avenged. Appeased, therefore, by the promise of Rachel as soon as the seven days are over, Jacob, rather than quarrel with the whole family, submits to the wrong. The Hebrew is remarkable, "Fulfil the week of this, and we will give to thee also the this for the service." But in Hebrew this . . . this means the one and the other (Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:41), and it is a mistake to suppose that the language will allow the first this to be understood of any one but Leah, and the second this of any one but Rachel.
