¹¹ Then Jacob kissed^(A) Rachel and began to weep aloud.^(B)

¹³ As soon as Laban^(A) heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him^(B) and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

²⁸ You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye.^(A) You have done a foolish thing.

⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.^(A) All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?