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Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."

And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."

When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."

For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."

but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"

Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.

For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?