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CHAPTER 28:
Jacob’s Marriage to Leah
and Rachel; His Children
and Riches
(28:1-30; cf. Gen. 24, 30, 31:1-2)
1 And he went on his journey,
and came to the land of the
east, to Laban, the brother of
Rebecca, and he was with him,
and served him for Rachel his
i. e. seven daughter one week. 2 And
years. For 1
cf. Gn. 29:1, in the first year of the third
20
week he said unto him: “Give
For 2-4 cf.
Gn. 29:21-25 me my wife, for whom I have
2122 A.M. served thee seven years;” and
Laban said unto Jacob. “I will
give thee thy wife.”
3 And Laban made a feast,
and took Leah his elder
daughter, and gave (her) to
Jacob as a wife, and gave her
Zilpah his handmaid for an
handmaid; and Jacob did not
know, for he thought that she
was Rachel.
4 And he went in unto her,
and behold, she was Leah;
and Jacob was angry with
Laban, and said unto him:
“Why hast thou dealt thus
with me? Did not I serve thee
for Rachel and not for Leah?
Why hast thou wronged me?
Take thy daughter, and I will
go; for thou hast done evil to
me.”
5 For Jacob loved Rachel more
than Leah; for Leah’s eyes
I S R A E L
B O R N
were weak, but her form was
very handsome; but Rachel Cf. Gn.
had beautiful eyes and a 29:17-18a
beautiful and very handsome
form. 6 And Laban said to
Jacob: “It is not so done in our
country, to give the younger Cf. Gn. 29:26
Cf. 1 En.
before the elder.” And it is 81:1, 93:2,
103:2,106:19
not right to do this; for thus mention
of
it is ordained and written in “Tablets
Heaven”
he
the heavenly tables, that no which
read and
every
one should give his younger copied
fact. Cf.
7:53
daughter before the elder--but Acts
“received the
the elder one giveth first and law (Torah)
by the
after her the younger--and disposition of
angels.”
the man who doeth so, they
set down guilt against him in
heaven, and none is righteous
that doeth this thing, for this
deed is evil before Yahuah.
7 And command thou the
children of Israel that they do
not this thing; let them neither
take nor give the younger
before they have given the
elder, for it is very wicked. For 8-10 cf.
8 And Laban said to Jacob: Gn. 29:27-29
“Let the seven days of the
feast of this one pass by, and
I shall give thee Rachel, that The marriage
two living
thou mayest serve me another ofsisters
to the
man
seven years, that thou mayest same
is expressly
in
pasture my sheep as thou didst forbidden
the Mosaic
in the former week.” 9 And Law which
came after
on the day when the seven this; cf.
Lv. 18:18.
days of the feast of Leah had This is over
400 years
passed, Laban gave Rachel before Moses
to Jacob, that he might serve however.
him another seven years, and
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