²⁶ give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

³⁰ And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.

¹² And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.

¹⁹ and Laban saith, `It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

²⁰ and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

²⁹ And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee `in', and that which thy substance was with me;

³⁰ for `it is' little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

⁶ and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,

²⁶ And Laban saith to Jacob, `What hast thou done that thou dost deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword?

³¹ And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me;

³⁸ `These twenty years I `am' with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

³⁹ the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

⁴⁰ I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

⁴¹ `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;