...It is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man ; abide with me. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel : and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love that he had to her. . [Then, at the end of seven years, Jacob asked Laban to give him Rachel to be...

...Sweet homes wherein to live and die." "And 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. I SELECT Jacob's service of seven years for Eachel, not to illustrate the passion...

...like that lengthened one which the patriarch paid to Laban for his daughter Rachel, " It seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Love asks not how long the service may last — it rejoices in the thought, that as on this earth it...

...picture of patriarchal simplicity — " And 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.) " The additional satisfaction from the taste of pleasures in the society of one...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...seven years, and did not forfeit his indentures, though he was old; nay, he served them cheerfully, they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her. As if it was more his desire to earn her than to have her. Note, Love makes long and hard services...

...RELATIONSHIP. WE read 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...

...is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." 20 So Jacob served 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...