Genesis 29:18-28

¹⁸Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

¹⁹Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

²⁰So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

²¹Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

²²So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

²³But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

²⁴And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

²⁵When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’ t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

²⁶Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

²⁷Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

²⁸And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

— Genesis 29:18-28

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Cross References for Genesis 29:18-28

• Hosea 12:12
• 1 Corinthians 13:7
• Ephesians 5:2
• Exodus 22:16-17
• Judges 15:1
• Matthew 7:2
• Song of Songs 8:6
• Genesis 29:20
• Proverbs 11:31
• Leviticus 18:18

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