18. And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”
19. And Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
20. So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
21. Then Ya‛aqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Give me my wife, for my days are completed, and let me go in to her.”
22. And Laḇan gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
23. And it came to be in the evening, that he took Lĕ’ah his daughter and brought her to Ya‛aqoḇ. And he went in to her.
24. And Laḇan gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Lĕ’ah as a female servant.
25. And in the morning it came to be, that see, it was Lĕ’ah. So he said to Laḇan, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Raḥĕl that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”
26. And Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
27. “Complete the week of this one, then we give you this one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.”
28. And Ya‛aqoḇ did so and completed her week. Then he gave him his daughter Raḥĕl too, as wife.
29. And Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Raḥĕl as a female servant.
30. And he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than Lĕ’ah. And he served with Laḇan still another seven years.
31. And יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Raḥĕl was barren.
32. And Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Re’uḇĕn, for she said, “For יהוה has looked on my affliction, because now my husband is going to love me.”
33. And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because יהוה has heard that I am unloved, He gave me this son too.” And she called his name Shim‛on.
34. And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband is joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So his name was called Lĕwi.