Genesis 29:1-14

1Then Jacob 1went on his journey, and came to the land of 2the sons of the east. 2He looked, and 3saw 4a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large. 3When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

4Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from 5Haran.” 5He said to them, “Do you know Laban the 6son of Nahor?” And they said, “We know him.” 6And he said to them, “Is it well with him?” And they said, “It is well, and here is 7Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.” 7He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them.” 8But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. 11Then Jacob 8kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept. 12Jacob told Rachel that he was a 910relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and 11she ran and told her father.

13So when 12Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and 13embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things. 14Laban said to him, “Surely you are 14my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.