Genesis 28:3   (Read all of Genesis 28)

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

Genesis 28:4   (Read all of Genesis 28)

May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."

Genesis 28:13   (Read all of Genesis 28)

There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.

Genesis 28:14   (Read all of Genesis 28)

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 28:15   (Read all of Genesis 28)

I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Genesis 28:22   (Read all of Genesis 28)

and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."

Genesis 29:4   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Jacob asked the shepherds, "My brothers, where are you from?" "We're from Harran," they replied.

Genesis 29:5   (Read all of Genesis 29)

He said to them, "Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?" "Yes, we know him," they answered.

Genesis 29:14   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Then Laban said to him, "You are my own flesh and blood." After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

Genesis 29:15   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban said to him, "Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."

Genesis 29:16   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:18   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."

Genesis 29:19   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban said, "It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me."

Genesis 29:25   (Read all of Genesis 29)

When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?"

Genesis 29:26   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.

Genesis 29:27   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work."

Genesis 30:2   (Read all of Genesis 30)

Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

Genesis 30:14   (Read all of Genesis 30)

During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:15   (Read all of Genesis 30)

But she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?" "Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:16   (Read all of Genesis 30)

So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

Genesis 30:26   (Read all of Genesis 30)

Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I've done for you."

Genesis 30:27   (Read all of Genesis 30)

But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you."

Genesis 30:28   (Read all of Genesis 30)

He added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."

Genesis 30:29   (Read all of Genesis 30)

Jacob said to him, "You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.