Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 29 📜 📕 ↷
15 he said to him: because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me gratis? Tell me, what wages wilt thou take?📜💬📚
16 He had indeed two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; & the younger was called Rachel.📜💬📚
17 But Lia was blear-eyed, Rachel well favoured, & of a beautiful countenance.📜💬📚
18 Whom Jacob loving, said: I will serve thee for Rachel thy younger daughter seven years.📜💬📚
19 Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to an other man, tarry with me.📜💬📚
20 Jacob therefore served for Rachel seven years: and they seemed a few days because of the greatness of his love.📜💬📚
21 And he said to Laban: give me my wife: because now the time is complete, that I may company with her.📜💬📚
22 Who having bid a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.📜💬📚
23 And at night he brought in Lia his daughter to him,📜💬📚
24 giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. With whom when Jacob had companied after the manner, when morning was come he saw Lia:📜💬📚
25 and he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Why hast thou deceived me?📜💬📚
26 Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, that we bestow the younger in marriage first.📜💬📚
27 Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee this same also, for the work that thou shalt serve me other seven years.📜💬📚
28 He yielded to his pleasure; and after the week was past, he married Rachel to wife:📜💬📚
29 to whom her father had delivered Bala for to be her servant.📜💬📚
30 And having at length obtained the marriage that he wished, he preferred the love of the later before the former, serving with him other seven years.📜💬📚
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