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Genesis 30:26

New Century Version

Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well.”

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Jacob loved Rachel, so he said to Laban, “Let me marry your younger daughter Rachel. If you will, I will work seven years for you.”

So Jacob had sexual relations with Rachel also, and Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. Jacob worked for Laban for another seven years.

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You cheated me and took my daughters as if you had captured them in a war.

Jacob answered Laban, “I left without telling you, because I was afraid you would take your daughters away from me.

You both know that I have worked as hard as I could for your father,

Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.