11. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
12. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. So she ran to tell her father.
13. When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him. After embracing and kissing him, he brought him to his house. Jacob then repeated to Laban all these things,
14. and Laban said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” After Jacob had stayed with him a full month,
15. Laban said to him: “Should you serve me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine? Tell me what your wages should be.”
16. Now Laban had two daughters; the older was called Leah, the younger Rachel.
17. Leah had dull eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
18. Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19. Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”
20. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.
21. Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, that I may consummate my marriage with her, for my term is now completed.”
22. So Laban invited all the local inhabitants and gave a banquet.
23. At nightfall he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he consummated the marriage with her.
24. Laban assigned his maidservant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
25. In the morning, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban: “How could you do this to me! Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why did you deceive me?”
26. Laban replied, “It is not the custom in our country to give the younger daughter before the firstborn.