| 1 | Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. | Ps 119:32 Ps 119:60 Ec 9:7 |
| 2 | He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well`s mouth was great. | Ps 23:2 So 1:6 So 1:7 Isa 49:10 Rev 7:17 |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran." |
| 5 | He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." |
| 6 | He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." |
| 7 | He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them." |
| 8 | 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." | Mk 16:3 Lk 24:2 |
| 9 | While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father`s sheep, for she kept them. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. | Gn 33:4 Gn 43:30 Gn 45:2 Gn 45:14 Gn 45:15 |
| 12 | Jacob told Rachel that he was her father`s brother, and that he was Rebekah`s son. She ran and told her father. | Gn 24:28 |
| 13 | 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. | Gn 45:15 Ex 4:27 Ex 18:7 2Sa 19:39 Lk 7:45 Ac 20:37 Ro 16:16 |
| 14 | Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month. |
| 15 | Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" |
| 16 | Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. |
| 17 | Leah`s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. | Gn 12:11 Gn 24:16 Gn 39:6 Pr 31:30 |
| 18 | Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." | Gn 31:41 Gn 34:12 Ex 22:16 Ex 22:17 2Sa 3:14 Hos 3:2 Hos 12:12 |
| 19 | Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." |
| 20 | Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. | Gn 24:67 So 8:6 So 8:7 1Co 13:7 2Co 5:14 Eph 5:2 |
| 21 | Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." | Gn 29:18 Gn 29:20 Gn 31:41 |
| 22 | Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. |
| 23 | It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. |
| 24 | Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. |
| 25 | 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?" | Gn 27:35 Gn 27:36 Jg 1:7 Pr 11:31 Mt 7:2 Mt 7:12 Jn 21:17 Rev 3:19 |
| 26 | Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born. |
| 27 | 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." |
| 28 | Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. |
| 29 | Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. |
| 30 | He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. | Gn 29:18 Gn 30:25 Gn 30:26 Gn 31:15 Gn 31:41 1Sa 18:17-27 Hos 12:12 |
| 31 | Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. | Gn 29:30 Gn 27:41 Dt 21:15 Mal 1:3 Mt 6:24 Mt 10:37 Lk 14:26 Jn 12:25 |
| 32 | 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." | Ex 3:7 Ex 4:31 Dt 26:7 1Sa 1:11 1Sa 1:20 2Sa 16:12 Ps 25:18 Ps 106:44 Lk 1:25 |
| 33 | She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. | Gn 34:25 Gn 34:30 Gn 35:23 Gn 42:24 Gn 49:5 Gn 49:6 |
| 34 | She conceived again, and bare 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. | Nm 18:2-4 |
| 35 | She conceived again, and bare a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. | Gn 49:8 |
