Genesis 29:28
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Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife. (NASB ©1995)

Genesis 29:27 "Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years."

Genesis 29:29 Laban also gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid. (NASB ©1995)


And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

fulfilled her week. The public marriage feast made on this occasion, seems to have formed the regular method of recognising the marriage, and lasted seven days: it would therefore have been improper to have broken off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited (ver. 22) and probably Laban wished to keep the fraud from the public eye. It is perfectly plain that Jacob did not serve seven years more before he got Rachel to wife.

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