Jubilees

And he went on his journey, and came to the lands of the east, to Laban, the brother of Rebekah, and he was with him, and served him for Rachel, his daughter, one week.

And in the first year of the third week he said to him: "Give me my wife, for whom I have served you seven years." and Laban said to Jacob: "I will give you your wife."

And Laban made a feast, and took Leah, his elder daughter, and gave her to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah, his maidservant, as her maidservant.

And he went in to her, and behold, she was Leah. And Jacob was angry with Laban and said to him: "Why have you done this to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel and not for Leah? Why have you deceived me? Take your daughter and I will depart. Because you have done evil against me."

For Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, although Leah's eyes were weak though her form was very attractive; but Rachel had beautiful eyes and a very beautiful and attractive form.

And Laban said to Jacob: "It is not practiced in our land to give the younger before the elder." And it is not right to do this, because it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets that no one should give the younger before the elder; but the elder shall be given first and after her the younger. And the man who does so, they cast blame upon him from heaven, and no one is just if he does this, because his work is evil before the Lord.

And you command the children of Israel that they do not do this. That they neither take nor give the younger before the elder, because this is very evil.

And Laban said to Jacob: "Let the seven days of this feast pass, and I will give you Rachel, but you shall serve me for seven more years, you shall pasture my sheep as you did in the previous week."

And on the day when the seven days of Leah's feast passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob, so that he should serve him for another seven years, and he gave to Rachel Bilhah, Zilpah's sister, as a maidservant.

And he served another seven years for Rachel, because Leah had been given to him for nothing.

And the Lord opened Leah's womb, and she conceived and bore a son of Jacob, and he called him by the name of Reuben, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, of the first year of the third week.

But Rachel's womb was closed, because the Lord saw that Leah was hated and Rachel loved.

And again Jacob went in to Leah and she conceived and bore a second son of Jacob, and he called him by the name of Simeon, on the twenty-first day of the tenth month of the third year of this week.

And Jacob went in to Leah and she conceived and bore a third son, and he called him by the name of Levi, on the new moon of the first month.

And again Jacob went in to her and she conceived and bore a fourth son, and he called him by the name of Judah, on the fifteenth day of the third month, in the first year of the fourth week.

Because of all this Rachel envied Leah, because she did not become pregnant, and said to Jacob: "Give me children." And Jacob said: "Have I withheld from you the fruit of your womb, or have I abandoned you?"

And when Rachel saw that Leah had borne Jacob four sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, she said to him: "Go in to Bilhah, my maidservant, and she will conceive and bear a son for me."

And he went in to her and she conceived and bore a son. And he called him by the name of Dan, on the ninth day of the sixth month, in the sixth year of the third week.

And Jacob went in again to Bilhah a second time and she conceived and bore another son of Jacob. And Rachel called him by the name of Naphtali, on the fifth day of the seventh month of the second year of the fourth week.

And when Leah saw that she had become barren and did not become pregnant, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her maidservant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and Leah called him by the name of Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month of the third year of the fourth week.

And he went in again to her and she conceived and bore a second son, and Leah called him by the name of Asher, on the second day of the eleventh month, in the fifth year of the fourth week.

And Jacob went in to Leah and she conceived and bore a son, and she called him by the name of Issachar, on the fourth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the fourth week, and she gave him to a nurse.

And Jacob went in to her again and she conceived and bore twins, a son and a daughter, and she called the son by the name of Zebulun, and the daughter by the name of Dinah, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the sixth year of the fourth week.

And the Lord was gracious to Rachel and opened her womb, and she conceived and bore a son. And she called him by the name of Joseph, on the new moon of the fourth month of the sixth year of the fourth week.

And in the days when Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban: "Give me my wives and children and let me go to my father Isaac, and let me make for myself a house. Because I have completed the years which I served you for your two daughters, and I will go to my father's house."

And Laban said to Jacob: "Stay with me for your wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and receive your wages."

And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those lambs and kids that were born black and the white spotted ones. These would be his flock.

And all the sheep that were brought, and all the lambs that they brought with them, and all that were spotted and the black were Jacob's, and those that were not were Laban's.

And Jacob's possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen, sheep, donkeys, camels, menservants and maidservants.

And Laban and his sons envied Jacob, and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he watched him with evil intentions.