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For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.</p> <p class="hdg">Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.</p> <p class="hdg">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. 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