Genesis 29:12-20 ▼

12 and Jacob declares to Rachel that he [is] her father’s brother, and that he [is] Rebekah’s son, and she runs and declares [it] to her father.

13 And it comes to pass, when Laban hears the report of his sister’s son Jacob, that he runs to meet him, and embraces him, and kisses him, and brings him into his house; and he recounts to Laban all these things,

14 and Laban says to him, “You [are] surely my bone and my flesh”; and he dwells with him a month of days.

15 And Laban says to Jacob, “Is it because you [are] my brother that you have served me for nothing? Declare to me what your hire [is].”

16 And Laban has two daughters, the name of the older [is] Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel,

17 and the eyes of Leah [are] tender, and Rachel has been beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance.

18 And Jacob loves Rachel and says, “I serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter”:

19 and Laban says, “It is better for me to give her to you than to give her to another man; dwell with me”;

20 and Jacob serves for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.