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Genesis 29:21

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¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
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  1. Judges 15:1Rank 1 from verse 21
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    1BUT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

  2. Genesis 29:18Rank 2 from verse 21
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    18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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    20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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    41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

  5. Genesis 38:16Rank 5 from verse 21
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    16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

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Genesis 29:21

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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fulfilled

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Filled up, completed, accomplished, performed, satisfied, expired, or brought fully to the appointed result, measure, time, or realization.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

21¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

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22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

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