15. LABAN said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

16. LABAN had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

18. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

19. LABAN said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

20. Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

21. Jacob said to LABAN, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

22. LABAN gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23. In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

24. LABAN gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

25. In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to LABAN, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

26. LABAN said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

27. Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

27. LABAN said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

28. He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

29. He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

30. For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

31. He said, "What shall I give you?"Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

32. I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

33. So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen."

34. LABAN said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

35. That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36. He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of LABAN's flocks.

37. Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38. He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

39. The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

40. Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of LABAN: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into LABAN's flock.

41. Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

42. but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were LABAN's, and the stronger Jacob's.

43. The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.