¹⁶Now Laban had two daughters. The older was Leah, and the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was very beautiful. ¹⁸Jacob loved Rachel, so he said to Laban, “Let me marry your younger daughter Rachel. If you will, I will work seven years for you.”

¹⁹Laban said, “It would be better for her to marry you than someone else, so stay here with me.” ²⁰So Jacob worked for Laban seven years so he could marry Rachel. But they seemed like just a few days to him because he loved Rachel very much.

²¹After seven years Jacob said to Laban, “Give me Rachel so that I may marry her. The time I promised to work for you is over.”

²²So Laban gave a feast for all the people there. ²³That evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and they had sexual relations. ²⁴(Laban gave his slave girl Zilpah to his daughter to be her servant.) ²⁵In the morning when Jacob saw that he had had sexual relations with Leah, he said to Laban, “What have you done to me? I worked hard for you so that I could marry Rachel! Why did you trick me?”

²⁶Laban said, “In our country we do not allow the younger daughter to marry before the older daughter. ²⁷But complete the full week of the marriage ceremony with Leah, and I will give you Rachel to marry also. But you must serve me another seven years.”

²⁸So Jacob did this, and when he had completed the week with Leah, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

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