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Genesis 29:15-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

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, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

18. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “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 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 made a feast.

23. But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.