And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban hi

And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

And Laban said to him, Surely thou are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou are my brother, should thou therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?

And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me.

And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.

And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou have done to me? Did I not serve with thee for Rachel? Why then have thou beguiled me?

And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

And Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.

And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry, for] I have learned by experience that LORD has blessed me for thy sake.

And Laban said, Behold, O that it might be according to thy word.

And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them near Laban's flock.

but when the flock were weak, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father's.

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead.

And Laban said to Jacob, What have thou done, that thou have slipped away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.

And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me?

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom th

And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee.

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau, Thus says thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob; all the souls were seven.