 | Godfrey Faussett - Bible - 1855 - 338 pages
...He insists strongly that the words, " And Jacob " served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed " unto him but a few days, for the love he had " to her*," imply that he must have at once possessed the object of his affections, for that hope deferred would... | |
 | 1855 - 590 pages
...laboured among them I can say what is said of the seven years Jacob served for Rachel. 'They seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.' In my ministrations ' I have not shunned to declare unto them the whole counsel of God ;' and with... | |
 | Missions - 1855 - 396 pages
...years, and then seven years more — fourteen years in all — for his beloved Rachel. i And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." There were three mighty men, who loved king David very much. They overheard him express a iassing wish... | |
 | David Daniell - Religion - 1992 - 700 pages
...than to another man? bide therefore with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rahel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come.... | |
 | David Daniell - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 462 pages
...chapter 24, or of Jacob serving for Rahel in 29: 'And Jacob served seven years for Rahel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her' — a sentence which went straight to the Authorised Version. (The Revised English Bible's version... | |
 | William Hoffman - Fiction - 1999 - 228 pages
...held her shivering body against his own, trying to keep her from knowing winter. . . . they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. . . . He stopped before the scarred sink, blackened where dripping had worn away enamel. The faucets... | |
 | Jewish Publication Society - Religion - 1996 - 406 pages
...give her to another man; abide with me.' "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ''And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that l may go in unto her.'... | |
 | Albert Borgmann - Technology & Engineering - 2007 - 286 pages
...a person whose beauty was so commanding that "Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." 20 The dependencies of technological information on nature and culture do not directly extend from... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 466 pages
...asking. I often think of them words, ' And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her.' I know those words 'ud come true with me, Dinah, if so be you 'd give me hope as I might win you after... | |
 | Ya'acov Agam - Bible - 1993 - 688 pages
...give her to another man : stay with me. And Ya'aqov served seven years for Rahel and they 20 seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And 21 Ya'aqov said to Lavan, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled that I may go in to her. And... | |
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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 
