4. Jacob said, “Hello friends. Where are you from?”They said, “We’re from Haran.”
5. Jacob asked, “Do you know Laban son of Nahor?”“We do.”
6. “Are things well with him?” Jacob continued.“Very well,” they said. “And here is his daughter Rachel coming with the flock.”
7. Jacob said, “There’s a lot of daylight still left; it isn’t time to round up the sheep yet, is it? So why not water the flocks and go back to grazing?”
8. “We can’t,” they said. “Not until all the shepherds get here. It takes all of us to roll the stone from the well. Not until then can we water the flocks.”
19. “It is far better,” said Laban, “that I give her to you than marry her to some outsider. Yes. Stay here with me.”
20. So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel. But it only seemed like a few days, he loved her so much.