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Genesis 30:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have given you.”

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Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have cheated me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

You know that I have served your father with all my strength;

(Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)