Genesis

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Genesis 28:16
16 When Jacob woke from his sleep, he thought to himself, The LORD is definitely in this place, but I didn't know it. "He was terrified and thought, This sacred place is awesome. It's none other than God's house and the entrance to heaven. 18 After Jacob got up early in the morning, he took the stone that he had put near his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. He named that sacred place Bethel, though Luz was the city's original name. 20 Jacob made a solemn promise: "If God is with me and protects me on this trip I'm taking, and gives me bread to eat and clothes to wear, 21and I return safely to my father's household, then the LORD will be my God. 22This stone that I've set up as a sacred pillar will be God's house, and of everything you give me I will give a tenth back to you."
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They said, "We know him." "He said to them, "Is he well?"
9 While he was still talking to them, Rachel came with her father's flock since she was its shepherd. 10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his uncle, and the flock of Laban, Jacob came up, rolled the stone from the well's opening, and watered the flock of his uncle Laban. "Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was related to her father and that he was Rebekah's son. She then ran to tell her father. 13When Laban heard about Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him. Laban embraced him, kissed him, and invited him into his house, where Jacob recounted to Laban everything that had happened. 14Laban said to him, "Yes, you are my flesh and blood."
Jacob meets Rachel
29 Jacob got to his feet and set out for you are my relative. Tell me what you would
like to be paid."
the land of the easterners. 2 He saw a well in the field in front of him, near which three flocks of sheep were lying down. That well was their source for water because the flocks drank from that well. A huge stone covered the well's opening. 3When all of the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well's opening, water the sheep, and return the stone to its place at the well's opening. "Jacob said to them, "Where are you from, my brothers?"
16 Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah and the younger Rachel. "Leah had delicate eyes," but Rachel had a beautiful figure and was goodlooking. 18 Jacob loved Rachel and said, “I will work for you for seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
19 Laban said, "I'd rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me."
20 Jacob worked for Rachel for seven years, but it seemed like a few days because
They said, "We're from Haran."
5Then he said to them, "Do you know he loved her. 21Jacob said to Laban, “The Laban, Nahor's grandson?"
time has come. Give me my wife so that I may sleep with her." 22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a banquet. 23 However, in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her. 24Laban had given his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her servant. 25In the morning, there she was— Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What have you done to me? Didn't I work for you to have Rachel? Why did you betray me?"
26 Laban said, "Where we live, we don't give the younger woman before the oldest.
They said, "He's fine. In fact, this is his daughter Rachel now, coming with the flock."
"He said to them, "It's now only the middle of the day. It's not time yet to gather the animals. Water the flock, and then go, put them out to pasture."
8They said to him, "We can't until all the herds are gathered, and then we roll the stone away from the well's opening and water the flock."
Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
After Jacob had stayed with Laban for a month, 15 Laban said to Jacob, "You shouldn't have to work for free just because
O°Or God's house POr they Heb uncertain; perhaps Leah had poor eyesight