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He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Ya`akov awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn't know it."

Ya`akov rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

Then Ya`akov went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

It happened, when Ya`akov saw Rachel the daughter of Lavan, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Lavan, his mother's brother, that Ya`akov went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Lavan his mother's brother.

Ya`akov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

It happened, when Lavan heard the news of Ya`akov, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Ya`akov, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya`akov told Lavan all these things.

It happened in the evening, that he took Le'ah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

Lavan gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Le'ah for a handmaid.

Ya`akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

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.

Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

Re'uven went in the days of wheat harvest, and found dudaim in the field, and brought them to his mother, Le'ah. Then Rachel said to Le'ah, "Please give me some of your son's dudaim."

That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Ya`akov separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Lavan: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Lavan's flock.

Ya`akov sent and called Rachel and Le'ah to the field to his flock,

Then Ya`akov rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-Aram, to go to Yitzchak his father to the land of Kana`an.