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Gen 29:28 (KJV) — And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

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

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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 (Gen 29:22) 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.