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 seemed [only] a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

Then [Jacob] also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.

And Laban said to Jacob: "What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and carried away my daughters like captives [taken] with the sword?

Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Perhaps 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.

Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended [sheep.]

So [Jacob] said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.

"For what you had before I [came was] little, and it has increased to a great amount; the LORD has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?"

"And you know that with all my might 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 drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.