Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know the service that I have given you.”
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
So Jacob also had relations with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah and served Laban another seven years.
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done that you have stolen away without my knowing and carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword?
Then Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
You know that with all my strength I have served your father.
Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.