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Is all well with him? asked Jacob. Yes, said they, all is well with him. That is his daughter, Rachel, yonder, coming towards us with her flock. (Genesis 29, 6)
Then Jacob said, The sun is still high, and it is a long time before the flocks need to be folded; why do you not water the sheep at once, and take them back to their pasture again? (Genesis 29, 7)
Jacob watched her as she came; this was his cousin, these were his uncle Laban’s sheep; so he moved away the stone by which the well was shut in. (Genesis 29, 10)
No sooner did Laban hear of his nephew Jacob’s arrival, than he ran out to meet him, embraced him, covered him with kisses, and brought him back home. He listened to the reasons that had brought him there, (Genesis 29, 13)
and on her Jacob’s love had fallen. So he answered, I will work seven years for thee to win thy younger daughter Rachel. (Genesis 29, 18)
So Jacob worked seven years to win Rachel, and they seemed to him only a few days, because of the greatness of his love. (Genesis 29, 20)
but that night he matched Jacob with his daughter Lia instead, (Genesis 29, 23)
giving her a maid called Zelpha to wait on her. So, with all due ceremony, Jacob took her to his bed, and it was not till morning he found out that it was Lia. (Genesis 29, 24)
To this Jacob agreed, and when the week was over he made Rachel his wife; (Genesis 29, 28)
What, answered Jacob, angry at her mood, Must I stand in the place of God to thee? It is he that has denied thee motherhood. (Genesis 30, 2)
Zelpha, too, bore Jacob a second son, (Genesis 30, 12)
What, answered she, art thou not content with stealing my husband from me? Must thou have my son’s mandrake fruit as well? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with thee to-night, if I may have some of thy son’s mandrake-fruit. (Genesis 30, 15)
