Genesis 29:19–30

¹⁹Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

²⁰So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

²¹And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

²²And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.

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

²⁴Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia.

²⁵And he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

²⁶Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.

²⁷Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.

²⁸He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel:

²⁹To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.

³⁰And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.