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.