18 Jacob was in love with Rachel(A) and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”(B)

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18 Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, (A)“I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

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20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel,(A) but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.(B)

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20 So Jacob (A)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

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His heart was drawn to Dinah(A) daughter of Jacob;(B) he loved(C) the young woman and spoke tenderly(D) to her.

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His soul [a]was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke [b]kindly to the young woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:3 Lit. clung to
  2. Genesis 34:3 tenderly

Some time later, he fell in love(A) with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.(B)

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Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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