Genesis 29:18
18Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, a“I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”Genesis 30:25-26
Jacob’s Prosperity
25As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country. 26Give me my wives and my children bfor whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”Genesis 31:15
15Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For che has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.Genesis 31:41
41These twenty years I have been in your house. dI served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and eyou have changed my wages ten times.1 Samuel 18:17-27
David Marries Michal
17Then Saul said to David, “Here is fmy elder daughter Merab. gI will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me hand fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, ibut let the hand of the Philistines be against him.” 18And David said to Saul, j“Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?” 19But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to kAdriel the lMeholathite for a wife.20Now mSaul’s daughter Michal nloved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may obe a snare for him pand that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, ▼
▼Hebrew by two
r“You shall now be my son-in-law.” 22And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king’s son-in-law.’” 23And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, s“Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?” 24And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.” 25Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no tbride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, uthat he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” vNow Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. wBefore the time had expired, 27David arose and went, xalong with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. yAnd David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. Hosea 12:12
12 zJacob fled to the land of Aram;there Israel aaserved for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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