¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will work for you for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than to another man. Stay and live with me.

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

³¹ [Laban] said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything, if you will do this one thing for me [of which I am about to tell you], and I will again feed and take care of your flock.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not lost their young, and the rams of your flock have not been eaten by me.

³⁹ I did not bring you [the carcasses of the animals] torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss of it; you required of me [to make good] all that was stolen, whether it occurred by day or by night.

⁴⁰ This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.

⁴¹ I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times.