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Complete the wedding week of this one. Then we will give you the other one also if you work for me seven years more."

So Jacob went in to Rachel also. He loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban seven years more.

Leah was able to have a child and she gave birth to a son. She gave him the name Reuben. For she said, "The Lord has seen my trouble. Now my husband will love me."

When Rachel saw that she had not given birth to any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am going to die!"

Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, the woman who serves me. Go in to her, and let her give birth for me. Even I may have children through her."

So she gave Bilhah to him for a wife, the woman who served her. And Jacob went in to her.

Then Rachel said, "God has done the right thing for me. He has heard my voice and has given me a son." So she gave him the name Dan.

Bilhah, the woman who served Rachel, was going to have another child. And she gave birth to another son for Jacob.

Then Leah said, "I am happy! For women will say that I am happy." So she gave him the name Asher.

When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went to meet him. She said, "You must sleep with me tonight. For I have paid for you with my son's fruit." So he lay with her that night.

And God heard Leah and she gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

Leah was going to have another child and she gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served. Let me leave, for you know how much I have served you."

Jacob said to him, "You know how much I have served you and how I have cared for your cattle.

For you had little before I came. But now it has become very much. The Lord has brought good to you everywhere I turned. But when will I be able to give much to those of my own house also?"

Laban said, "What should I pay you?" Jacob said, "Do not pay me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again feed and take care of your flock.

So my fair actions will answer for me later, when you come to look at what I have been paid. If you find any sheep or goat without spots or any lamb that is not black, you may think of them as stolen."

Then he traveled three days away from Jacob. And Jacob was left to care for the rest of Laban's flocks.

You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

He said, ‘Look and see how all the male goats that are mating with the others have black marks and spots. For I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.