14. Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!”After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,
15. Laban said to him, “You shouldn’t work for me without pay just because we are relatives. Tell me how much your wages should be.”
16. Now Laban had two daughters. The older daughter was named Leah, and the younger one was Rachel.
17. There was no sparkle in Leah’s eyes, but Rachel had a beautiful figure and a lovely face.
18. Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, “I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”
19. “Agreed!” Laban replied. “I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”
20. So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
21. Finally, the time came for him to marry her. “I have fulfilled my agreement,” Jacob said to Laban. “Now give me my wife so I can sleep with her.”
22. So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.
23. But that night, when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.
24. (Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)