Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 29:23-29 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

23. And at night he brought in Lia his daughter to him,

24. 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:

25. 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?

26. Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.

27. 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.

28. He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel:

29. To whom her father gave Bala for her servant.