²⁶ Give me my wives and my children ^(A)for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”

³⁰ So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban ^(A)for another seven years.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. ³⁹ What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. ^(A)From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. ⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in your house. ^(B)I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^(C)you have changed my wages ten times.

³¹ Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have ^(A)tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?

^6 (A)You know that I have served your father with all my strength,

¹⁹ Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” ²⁰ So Jacob ^(A)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

²⁹ Jacob said to him, ^(A)“You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me. ³⁰ For you had little before I came, ^(B)and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I ^(C)provide for my own household also?”