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so they gather together thither all the flocks, and roll away the stone from off the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, - and put hack the stone upon the mouth of the well, to its place.

And Laban said to him, Surely, my bone and my flesh, art thou. So he abode with him a month of days.

So Jacob loved Rachel, - and he said, I will serve thee seven years, for Rachel thy younger daughter.

So Jacob served for Rachel - seven years, - and they became, in his eyes, as single days, for his love to her.

So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a banquet,

And Laban said, It must not be done so in our place, - to give the later-born before the firstborn.

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week of this one, - and he gave him Rachel his daughter - to him to wife.

So he went in, unto Rachel also, and loved, Rachel also, more than Leah, - and he served with him, yet seven years more.

So Leah conceived, and hare a son, and called his name Reuben, - for she said, Because, Yahweh hath looked upon my humiliation, For, now, will my husband love me.

And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said. Because Yahweh heard that, I, was I hated, he gave me, this one also. So she called his name Simeon.

And Rachel saw she had borne no children unto Jacob, so Rachel became envious of her sister, - and said unto Jacob, Come! give me children, or else, I die.

And she said, Lo! my handmaid, Bilhah. Go in unto her, - that she may hear upon my knees, so that, I also, may be builded up by her!

Then said Rachel With wrestlings of God, have I wrestled with my sister Yea I have prevailed. So she called his name, Naphtali.

Then saw Leah, that she had left off bearing, - so she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

and Leah said, Victory hath come! So she called his name Gad.

and Leah said, For my happiness, surely happy have daughters pronounced me. So she called his name, Asher.

And Jacob came in from the field, in the evening, so Leah went out to meet him and said: Unto me, shall thou come in, for I have hired, thee, even with the mandrakes of my son. And he lay with her that night,

Then said Leah. God hath given my hire, in that I gave my handmaid to my husband. So she called his name, Issachar.

Then said Leah, God hath dowered me even me with a hand-some dowry, Now! will my husband dwell with me, for I have borne him six sons. So she called his name, Zebulon.

And afterwards she bare a daughter, - so she called her name, Dinah.