29Genesis 29

1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.Select Genesis 29:1

2He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.Select Genesis 29:2

3There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.Select Genesis 29:3

4Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”Select Genesis 29:4

5He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”Select Genesis 29:5

6He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”Select Genesis 29:6

7He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”Select Genesis 29:7

8They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”Select Genesis 29:8

9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.Select Genesis 29:9

10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.Select Genesis 29:10

11Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.Select Genesis 29:11

12Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.Select Genesis 29:12

13When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.Select Genesis 29:13

14Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.Select Genesis 29:14

15Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”Select Genesis 29:15

16Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Select Genesis 29:16

17Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.Select Genesis 29:17

18Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”Select Genesis 29:18

19Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”Select Genesis 29:19

20Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.Select Genesis 29:20

21Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”Select Genesis 29:21

22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.Select Genesis 29:22

23In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.Select Genesis 29:23

24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.Select Genesis 29:24

25In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Select Genesis 29:25

26Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.Select Genesis 29:26

27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”Select Genesis 29:27

28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.Select Genesis 29:28

29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.Select Genesis 29:29

30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Select Genesis 29:30

31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.Select Genesis 29:31

32Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”Select Genesis 29:32

33She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.Select Genesis 29:33

34She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.Select Genesis 29:34

35She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.Select Genesis 29:35