8. They replied, “We cannot until all the shepherds are here to roll the stone away from the mouth of the well; then can we water the flocks.”
9. While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was the one who tended them.
10. As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of Laban, he went up, rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well, and watered Laban’s sheep.
11. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
12. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. So she ran to tell her father.
13. When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him. After embracing and kissing him, he brought him to his house. Jacob then repeated to Laban all these things,
14. and Laban said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” After Jacob had stayed with him a full month,
15. Laban said to him: “Should you serve me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine? Tell me what your wages should be.”
16. Now Laban had two daughters; the older was called Leah, the younger Rachel.
17. Leah had dull eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
18. Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19. Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”