14. Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
15. Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
16. Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17. Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
18. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
19. Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
20. Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
21. Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
22. Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23. In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
24. Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
25. In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
26. Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27. Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
28. Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
29. Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
30. He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
31. The Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
32. Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the Lord has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
33. She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.