June 17, 2005

2 Passages, Biblically Speaking

By DAVID COHEN

Article: For Bible Editors, No Day of Rest

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. --  Genesis 29:20 (David Norton's New Cambridge Paragraph edition)

  • That verse nears the culmination of a passage about Jacob's love affair with Rachel, whose hand in marriage cost him seven years of labor for his uncle Laban. For Mr. Norton, the particular

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