Genesis 29:9   (Read all of Genesis 29)

While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.

Genesis 29:10   (Read all of Genesis 29)

When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.

Genesis 29:12   (Read all of Genesis 29)

He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

Genesis 29:13   (Read all of Genesis 29)

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

Genesis 29:14   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Then Laban said to him, "You are my own flesh and blood." After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

Genesis 29:15   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban said to him, "Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."

Genesis 29:18   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."

Genesis 29:19   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban said, "It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me."

Genesis 29:20   (Read all of Genesis 29)

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

Genesis 29:21   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her."

Genesis 29:22   (Read all of Genesis 29)

So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.

Genesis 29:24   (Read all of Genesis 29)

And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.

Genesis 29:25   (Read all of Genesis 29)

When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?"

Genesis 29:27   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work."

Genesis 29:28   (Read all of Genesis 29)

And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Genesis 29:29   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant.

Genesis 29:30   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Genesis 29:31   (Read all of Genesis 29)

When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.

Genesis 29:32   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, "It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now."

Genesis 29:33   (Read all of Genesis 29)

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon.

Genesis 29:34   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi.

Genesis 29:35   (Read all of Genesis 29)

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise the Lord." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

Genesis 30:1   (Read all of Genesis 30)

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"

Genesis 30:2   (Read all of Genesis 30)

Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"