Genesis 29:15-30

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel

15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?" 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah's eyes were weak, 1 but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. 18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, q "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." 20 So Jacob q served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed." 22 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and r made a feast. 23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. 24 (Laban gave 2 s his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 25 And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" 26 Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 t Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years." 28 Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 (Laban gave u his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban v for another seven years.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 30:26
    Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.
    Genesis 31:41
    These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
    Hosea 12:12
    Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 29:18
    Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.
  3. Cross References
    Judges 14:10
    His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
    John 2:1 - 2
    On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 30:9 - 12
    When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
  5. Cross References
    Judges 14:12
    And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 30:3 - 7
    Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 29:20
    So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
    Genesis 31:41
    These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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