Gen 29:18-30, 30:33-40, 31:38, 1Cor 15:10, 2Cor 11:26 | ESV | STEP | Jacob loved Rachel . And he said , I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel .

a ch. 30:26; 31:41; [Hos. 12:12]

b[See ver. 18 above]

c Judg. 14:10; [John 2:1, 2]

eSee ch. 30:9-12

f[Judg. 14:12]

gSee ch. 30:3-7

h ver. 20; ch. 31:41

iSee ch. 31:8-12

j[Ex. 2:16]

k 2 Cor. 11:23; 12:11; Col. 1:29

l[ch. 3:6; 2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 2:13]; See Matt. 10:20

m Acts 9:23; 13:50; 14:5; 17:5; 1 Thess. 2:15; [Acts 18:12; 20:3, 19; 21:27; 23:10, 12; 25:3]

n Acts 14:5; [Acts 19:23; 27:42]

o Acts 21:31

Genesis 29:18-30

18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, ^a“I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” 20 So Jacob ^bserved seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” 22 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and ^cmade a feast. 23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. 24 (Laban gave ^{▼▼Or had given; also verse 29} ^ehis female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 25 And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” 26 Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 ^fComplete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” 28 Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 (Laban gave ^ghis female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban ^hfor another seven years.

Genesis 30:33-40

33 So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.” 34 Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.” 35 But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 36 And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.

37 Then ⁱJacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. 38 He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the ^jwatering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, 39 the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

Genesis 31:38

38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

1 Corinthians 15:10

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, ^kI worked harder than any of them, ^lthough it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

2 Corinthians 11:26

26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, ^mdanger from my own people, ⁿdanger from Gentiles, ^odanger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;