²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."

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

¹² Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

¹⁹ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

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

²⁹ He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

³⁰ For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

⁶ You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

²⁶ Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

³¹ Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

³⁸ These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

³⁹ That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

⁴⁰ Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

⁴¹ These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.