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Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
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Lavan said to Ya`akov, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
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Lavan had two daughters. The name of the elder was Le'ah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
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Le'ah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
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Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
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Lavan said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
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Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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Ya`akov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
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Lavan gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
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It happened in the evening, that he took Le'ah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
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Lavan gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Le'ah for a handmaid.
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It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to Lavan, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
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Lavan said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
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Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
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Ya`akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
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Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.
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He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Le'ah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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The LORD saw that Le'ah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re'uven. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
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She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Shim`on.
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She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.