Laban said to him: “Should you serve me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was called Leah, the younger Rachel.
He continued, “State the wages I owe you, and I will pay them.”
Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.
yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.
When his mother’s kin repeated these words on his behalf to all the lords of Shechem, they set their hearts on Abimelech, thinking, “He is our kin.”