And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter,
and brought her to him. And it came to pass, that in the morning he
said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve
with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban
said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before
the firstborn. We will give thee Rachel also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so: and
he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. And Jacob loved also
Rachel more than Leah. And Leah had four sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
and Judah. And Rachel envied her sister, and said, Give me children,
or else I die. And Jacob was angry with her, and said, Am I in God's
stead, who hath withheld children from thee? And she gave him her maid
Bilhah to wife: and Bilhah bare Jacob Dan and Naphtali. Then Leah gave
Zilpah her maid to Jacob to wife: and she bare him two sons, Gad and
Asher. And Leah bare Issachar and Zebulun, and a daughter whom she
called Dinah.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her. And she bare a
son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: and she called his name
Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
CHAPTER 16
JACOB AND LABAN
AND it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto
Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my
country. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,
and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
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