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Genesis 29
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29Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.H3290H5375H7272H3212H776H1121H6924
2There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.H7200H875H7704H7969H5739H6629H7257H875H8248H5739H1419H68H875H6310
3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.H5739H622H1556H68H875H6310H8248H6629H7725H68H7725H875H6310H4725
4Jacob asked the shepherds, "My brothers, where are you from?" "We're from Harran," they replied.H3290H559H251H370H559H2771
5He said to them, "Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?" "Yes, we know him," they answered.H559H3045H3837H1121H5152H559H3045
6Then Jacob asked them, "Is he well?" "Yes, he is," they said, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."H559H7965H559H7965H7354H1323H935H6629
7"Look," he said, "the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture."H559H2005H1419H3117H6256H4735H622H8248H6629H3212H7462
8"We can't," they replied, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep."H559H3201H5739H622H1556H68H875H6310H8248H6629
9While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was their shepherd.H5750H1696H7354H935H1H6629H7462
10When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.H3290H7200H7354H1323H3837H517H251H6629H3837H517H251H3290H5066H1556H68H875H6310H8248H6629H3837H517H251
11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.H3290H5401H7354H5375H6963H1058
12He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.H3290H5046H7354H1H251H7259H1121H7323H5046H1
13As 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.H3837H8085H8088H3290H269H1121H7323H7125H2263H5401H935H1004H5608H3837H1697
14Then Laban said to him, "You are my own flesh and blood." After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,H3837H559H389H6106H1320H3427H3117H2320
15Laban 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."H3837H559H3290H251H5647H2600H5046H4909
16Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.H3837H8147H1323H8034H1419H3812H8034H6996H7354
17Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.H3812H7390H5869H7354H3303H8389H3303H4758
18Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."H3290H157H7354H559H5647H7651H8141H7354H6996H1323
19Laban said, "It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me."H3837H559H2896H5414H5414H312H376H3427
20So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.H3290H5647H7651H8141H7354H5869H259H3117H160
21Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her."H3290H559H3837H3051H802H3117H4390H935
22So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.H3837H622H582H4725H6213H4960
23But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.H6153H3947H3812H1323H935H935
24And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.H3837H5414H1323H3812H2153H8198H8198
25When 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?"H1242H3812H559H3837H6213H5647H7354H7411
26Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.H3837H559H6213H4725H5414H6810H6440H1067
27Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work."H4390H2063H7620H5414H5656H5647H7651H312H8141
28And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.H3290H6213H4390H7620H5414H7354H1323H802
29Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant.H3837H5414H7354H1323H1090H8198H8198
30Jacob 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.H935H7354H157H7354H3812H5647H7651H312H8141
31When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.H3068H7200H3812H8130H6605H7358H7354H6135
32Leah 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."H3812H2029H3205H1121H7121H8034H7205H3588H559H3588H3068H7200H6040H3588H376H157
33She 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.H2029H3205H1121H559H3068H8085H8130H5414H7121H8034H8095
34Again 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.H2029H3205H1121H559H6471H376H3867H3205H7969H1121H8034H7121H3878
35She 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.H2029H3205H1121H559H6471H3034H3068H7121H8034H3063H5975H3205


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