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Genesis - ch 29 v 21 - 35
- Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
- Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
- Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
- 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?"
- Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- 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."
- Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
- Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.
- He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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