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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 29 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Genesis 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/28.htm" title="Genesis 28">◄</a> Genesis 29 <a href="../genesis/30.htm" title="Genesis 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/genesis/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Marriages of Jacob</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Jacob said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had marital relations with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.</p> <p class="title">The Family of Jacob</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>When the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/29-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “This time I will praise the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.” That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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