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And he happened upon a particular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place.

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, because they watered the flocks from that well. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"

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

Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."

Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she named him Simeon.

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.

Then Leah said, "God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

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.

"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

Then Jacob replied 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, "May my lord not be angry that I cannot stand in your presence, because the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.

Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip which is on the socket of the hip, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the tendon of the hip.

"Please accept my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty." So he urged him, and he accepted it.

Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard about it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

The young man did not delay to do this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

Jacob's sons came upon those killed and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Then he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they resided could not support them because of their livestock.