Give me my wives and my children for whom I’ve served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my labor—that I’ve served you.”
Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, “Let me serve you for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
Jacob also went to Rachel and indeed loved Rachel more than Leah. So he served with him for yet another seven years.
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you’ve stolen my heart and have driven my daughters away like captives of the sword?
In response, Jacob said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought, ‘Suppose you snatch your daughters away from me.’
Now you yourselves know that I’ve served your father with all my strength.
Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”