 | Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 392 Seiten
...in the history of the Patriarch Jacob, that the seven years which he served for Rachel " seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." , And I knew a Swedish girl who devoted herself for ten years to wait upon her blind and necessitous... | |
 | 1857 - 788 Seiten
...is better that I should give her to thee than that I should give her to another man; abide with me." "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." But Jacob was deceived. He had told Laban that he would serve him seven years for Kachel; but "it came... | |
 | Robert James M'Ghee - 1857 - 654 Seiten
...and supports ths heart through many intervening years of anxious expectation — as we are told, " Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her" — Gen. xxix. 20. And if that be so with respect to this world, in reference to the future hopes of... | |
 | David Daniell - 1992 - 700 Seiten
...give her thee, 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 - 2001 - 462 Seiten
...Rebecca in 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 - 1999 - 228 Seiten
...to weep. He 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 - 1996 - 406 Seiten
...'It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; abide with me.' "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they...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 - 2007 - 286 Seiten
...to disposable commodities while the latter celebrates 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... | |
 | Ya'acov Agam - 1993 - 688 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 466 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
