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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

So Laban gathered together all the people of the place, and made a feast.

Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years.

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.

Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she named him Naphtali.

And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she named him Gad.

And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.

When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.

Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she named him Issachar.

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun.

But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."

the flocks bred in front of the rods, and so the flocks produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.

but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was,

So Jacob arose, and set his children and his wives on camels;

So he fled with all that he had; starting out he crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

So he took his kinsfolk with him and pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered Rachel's.