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Genesis 29:21-26 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

21. And he said to Laban, "Give my wife to me. For now the time has been fulfilled, so that I may go in to her."

22. And he, having called a great crowd of his friends to the feast, agreed to the marriage.

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

24. giving his daughter a handmaid named Zilpah. After Jacob had gone in to her, according to custom, when morning had arrived, he saw Leah.

25. And he said to his father-in-law, "What is it that you intended to do? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?"

26. Laban responded, "It is not the practice in this place to give the younger in marriage first.

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