And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me.

And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they seemed [only] a few days, because of the love that he had for her.

And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years.

And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? Why did you run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time you should take away your daughters from me, and all my possessions.

These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep, and you falsely changed my wages for ten lambs.

And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

And Jacob said, You know in what things I have served you, and how many livestock of yours is with me.

For what you had was little before my time, and it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord God has blessed you since my coming; now then, when shall I set up also my own house?

And you too know that with all my might I have served your father.

These twenty years have I been with you; your sheep, and your female goats have not failed in bearing; and I have not eaten the rams of your cattle.

I was parched with heat by day, and [chilled] with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.