^{18 Ref} Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

^{19 Ref} Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

^{20 Ref} Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

^{21 Ref} Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

^{22 Ref} Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

^{23 Ref} It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

^{24 Ref} Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

^{25 Ref} 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 first born.

^{27 Ref} 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."

²⁸ Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

^{29 Ref} Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

^{30 Ref} He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.