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

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were only a day in his eyes because of the love he had for her.

And Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

And Laban said to Jacob: What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and led away my daughters like captives of the sword?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest you would take your daughters from me by force.

Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he kept sheep for a wife.

So Jacob said to him, You know how I have served you and how your livestock is with me.

For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased into a multitude; Jehovah has blessed you since I stepped foot here. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?

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

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

There I was: In the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.