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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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