Genesis Chapter 29 verse 28 Holy Bible
And jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.
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And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.
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And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week [with] this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife.
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And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
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And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel, his daughter, for a wife also.
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Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
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And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - And Jacob aid so, and fulfilled her week. Literally, the week of this one, either of Leah or of Rachel, as above. Rosenmüller, assigning the first week (ver. 27) to Leah, refers this to Rachel; but the expression can scarcely have two different meanings within the compass of two verses. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. The polygamy of Jacob, though contrary to the law of nature (Genesis 2:21-25), admits of some palliation, since Rachel was the choice of his affections The marriage of sisters was afterwards declared incestuous (Leviticus 18:18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) He gave him Rachel . . . to wife also.--After the monogamy of Abraham, and the stricter monogamy of Isaac, how came Jacob to marry two wives? Abravanel says that as Esau ought to have married Leah, and Jacob Rachel, he acted only as his brother's substitute in taking the elder, and was still free to marry the younger sister, who was his by custom, He thinks also that Jacob, recalling the promise of a. seed numerous as the dust (Genesis 28:14), and seeing how near the family had been to total extinction in the days of his father and grandfather, desired to place it on a more secure basis. More probably, even after Leah had been forced upon him, Jacob regarded Rachel as his own, and as polygamy was not actually forbidden, considered that he was only acting justly by her and himself in marrying her. He had seen Esau blamed, not for marrying two wives, but for taking Hittites; and his love for Rachel would make him need but little argument. The only other alternative, namely, to have divorced Leah, would have been worse, and happily divorce was not a practice as yet introduced.
