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Ge 29:28 King James And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
gave him Rachel also--It is evident that the marriage of both sisters took place nearly about the same time, and that such a connection was then allowed, though afterwards prohibited (Lev 18:18).
 
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18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.