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GenèseChapitre 29

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Then Jacob set out on his way and came to the land of the eastern peoples.
There he saw a well in the open country, and three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. A large stone lay over the mouth of the well.
When all the flocks had gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well.
Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" "We are from Haran," they answered.
He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" "We know him," they said.
"Is he well?" he asked. "He is well," they said, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."
Then he said, "Look, the sun is still high; it isn't time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and go on grazing them."
But they said, "We can't, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well. Only then can we water the sheep."
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother's brother Laban, and Laban's sheep, he stepped up, rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his mother's brother Laban.
He told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, the son of Rebekah, and she ran and told her father.
As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And Jacob told Laban everything that had happened.
Laban said to him, "You really are my own flesh and blood." So Jacob stayed with him a full month.
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my kinsman, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."
Now Laban had two daughters. The older was named Leah, and the younger Rachel.
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
Laban said, "Better that I give her to you than to another man. Stay with me."
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days, so great was his love for her.
So Laban gathered all the men of the place and gave a feast.
When evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
Laban also gave his slave girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her slave girl.
When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What have you done to me? Wasn't it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?"
Laban answered, "It is not our custom here to give the younger before the firstborn.
Finish this bridal week, and we will give you the other one as well, in return for another seven years of work."
So Jacob did this. He finished the week, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
Laban also gave his slave girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her slave girl.
Jacob slept with Rachel too, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb; but Rachel remained childless.
Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, "The LORD has seen my misery. Surely now my husband will love me."
She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she said, "Because the LORD heard that I am unloved, he has given me this one too." So she named him Simeon.
She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she said, "Now at last my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi.
She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing children.
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