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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days because of his love for her.

Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and Jacob had relations with her.

Laban also gave his female slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a slave.

Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Laban also gave his female slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrake fruits in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; finally my husband will acknowledge me as his wife, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

So he removed on that day the striped or spotted male goats, and all the speckled or spotted female goats, every one with white on it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.

Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,

Then Jacob stood up and put his children and his wives on camels;

and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he possessed which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.

Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

"The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Then early in the morning Laban got up, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.