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and on her Jacob’s love had fallen. So he answered, I will work seven years for thee to win thy younger daughter Rachel. (Genesis 29, 18)
So Jacob worked seven years to win Rachel, and they seemed to him only a few days, because of the greatness of his love. (Genesis 29, 20)
but that night he matched Jacob with his daughter Lia instead, (Genesis 29, 23)
giving her a maid called Zelpha to wait on her. So, with all due ceremony, Jacob took her to his bed, and it was not till morning he found out that it was Lia. (Genesis 29, 24)
To this Jacob agreed, and when the week was over he made Rachel his wife; (Genesis 29, 28)
What, answered Jacob, angry at her mood, Must I stand in the place of God to thee? It is he that has denied thee motherhood. (Genesis 30, 2)
Zelpha, too, bore Jacob a second son, (Genesis 30, 12)
and Lia said, Here is a blessing for me; women must needs call me blessed now; so she gave him the name of Aser, Blessedness. (Genesis 30, 13)
What, answered she, art thou not content with stealing my husband from me? Must thou have my son’s mandrake fruit as well? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with thee to-night, if I may have some of thy son’s mandrake-fruit. (Genesis 30, 15)
So, when Jacob came back from work at evening, Lia went out to meet him; Thou art to share my bed to-night, she told him; I have paid thy hire with the mandrake fruit which my son found. So he slept with her that night; (Genesis 30, 16)
After Joseph’s birth, Jacob said to his father-in-law, Give me leave to go back home, to my own country. (Genesis 30, 25)
None knows better than thou, answered Jacob, how hard I have worked for thee, and how these herds of thine have increased under my care. (Genesis 30, 29)
