Laban

And Rebekah hath a brother, and his name is Laban, and Laban runneth unto the man who is without, unto the fountain;

And Laban answereth--Bethuel also--and they say, `The thing hath gone out from Jehovah; we are not able to speak unto thee bad or good;

and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

and now, my son, hearken to my voice, and rise, flee for thyself unto Laban my brother, to Haran,

rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take for thyself from thence a wife, of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother;

And Isaac sendeth away Jacob, and he goeth to Padan-Aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.

And he saith to them, `Have ye known Laban, son of Nahor?' and they say, `We have known.'

and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things,

and Laban saith to him, `Only my bone and my flesh art thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days.

And Laban saith to Jacob, `Is it because thou art my brother that thou hast served me for nought? declare to me what is thy hire.'

And Laban hath two daughters, the name of the elder is Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel,

and Laban saith, `It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

And Jacob saith unto Laban, `Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;'

and Laban gathereth all the men of the place, and maketh a banquet.

and Laban giveth to her Zilpah, his maid-servant, to Leah his daughter, a maid-servant.

And it cometh to pass in the morning, that lo, it is Leah; and he saith unto Laban, `What is this thou hast done to me? for Rachel have I not served with thee? and why hast thou deceived me?'

And Laban saith, `It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first-born;

and Laban giveth to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant, for a maid-servant to her.

And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes--I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'

And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-streaked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock.

and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set them ; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's.