VIN(i)
1 And Jacob continued his journey and went to the land of the Easterners.
2 And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.
3 and when all the flocks were collected there, the shepherds rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep; and then put the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well.
4 Jacob asked the shepherds: "Where are you from?" They answered: "We are from Haran."
5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.
7 And he saith, `Lo, the day is still great, it is not time for the cattle to be gathered; water ye the flock, and go, delight yourselves.'
8 And they said, "We are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep."
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.
11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was the relative of her father, and that he was the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father.
13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
14 Laban said: "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a whole month.
15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be."
16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah had soft eyes and Rachel was shapely and very beautiful.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.
19 Laban answered: "It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me."
20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for the days are completed, that I may go in unto her.
22 And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.
23 And in the evening he took his daughter Leia and brought her to Jacob; and Jacob went in unto her.
24 And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah, as a maid for her.
25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
26 Laban answered: "It is not our custom to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
27 Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.
28 Jacob did that. He finished the week with Leah. Then Laban gave his daughter Rachel to him as his wife.
29 Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.
30 Jacob slept with Rachel too. He loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, because she said: »Certainly, the LORD has seen my misery. Now my husband will love me!«
33 And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said. Because the LORD heard that, I, was I hated, he gave me, this one also. So she called his name Simeon.
34 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.
35 Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.