Laban

And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:

But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.

And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.

And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.

And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed.

Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran forth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,

He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.

Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the younger was called Rachel.

Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.

Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia.

And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.

To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.

And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.

And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.

And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were Laban's, and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.

But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of the first time, Jacob's.