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Genesis
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English: World English Bible |
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Genesis 29 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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| 15. |
Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" |
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Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. |
| 17. |
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. |
| 18. |
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." |
| 19. |
Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." |
| 20. |
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. |
| 21. |
Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." |
| 22. |
Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. |
| 23. |
It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. |
| 24. |
Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. |
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It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" |
| 26. |
Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. |
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Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years." |
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Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. |
| 29. |
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. |
| 30. |
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. |
| 31. |
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. |
| 32. |
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me." |
| 33. |
She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. |
| 34. |
She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi. |
| 35. |
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. |
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