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Genesis - ch 29 v 21 - 35
- And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
- And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.
- And at night he brought in Lia his daughter to him,
- Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zalpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom when morning was come he saw it was Lia:
- 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?
- Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.
- Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
- He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel:
- To whom her father gave Bala for her servant.
- And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
- And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
- And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.
- And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
- And she conceived the third time, and bore another son: and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called hi sname Levi.
- The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.
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