Jubilees 28:1-30

¹And he went on his journey, and came to the land of the east, to Laban, the brother of Rebecca, and he was with him, and served him for Rachel his daughter one week.

²And in the first year of the third week [2122 A.M.] 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.'

³And Laban made a feast, and took Leah his elder daughter, and gave her to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah his handmaid as a handmaid; and Jacob did not know, for he thought that she was Rachel.

⁴And he went in to her, and behold, she was Leah; and Jacob was angry with Laban, and said to him: 'Why have you dealt with me like this? Did I not serve you for Rachel and not for Leah? Why have you wronged me? Take your daughter, and I will go; for you have done evil to me.' For Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah; for Leah's eyes were weak, but her form was very handsome; but Rachel had beautiful eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form.

⁵And Laban said to Jacob: 'It is not done so in our country, to give the younger before the elder.' And it is not right to do this; for thus it is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder; but the elder, one gives first and after her the younger—and the man who does so, they record guilt against him in heaven, and no one is righteous who does this thing, for this deed is evil before the Lord.

⁶And you are to command the children of Israel that they do not do this thing; let them neither take nor give the younger before they have given the elder, for it is very wicked.

⁷And Laban said to Jacob: 'Let the seven days of the feast of this one pass by, and I shall give you Rachel, so that you may serve me another seven years, that you may pasture my sheep as you did in the former week.'

⁸And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob, that he might serve him another seven years, and he gave to Rachel Bilhah, the sister of Zilpah, as a handmaid.

⁹And he served yet another seven years for Rachel, for Leah had been given to him for nothing.

¹⁰And the Lord opened the womb of Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a son, and he called his name Reuben, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, in the first year of the third week. [2122 A.M.]

¹¹But the womb of Rachel was closed, for the Lord saw that Leah was hated and Rachel loved.

¹²And again Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a second son, and he called his name Simeon, on the twenty-first of the tenth month, and in the third year of this week. [2124 A.M.]

¹³And again Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived, and bore him a third son, and he called his name Levi, in the new moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week. [2127 A.M.]

¹⁴And again Jacob went in to her, and she conceived, and bore him a fourth son, and he called his name Judah, on the fifteenth of the third month, in the first year of the fourth week. [2129 A.M.]

¹⁵And because of all this Rachel envied Leah, for she did not bear, and she said to Jacob: 'Give me children'; and Jacob said: 'Have I withheld from you the fruits of your womb? Have I forsaken you?'

¹⁶And when Rachel saw that Leah had borne four sons to Jacob—Reuben and Simeon and Levi and Judah—she said to him: 'Go in to Bilhah my handmaid, and she will conceive, and bear a son for me.' (And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid as a wife.)

¹⁷And he went in to her, and she conceived, and bore him a son, and he called his name Dan, on the ninth of the sixth month, in the sixth year of the third week. [2127 A.M.]

¹⁸And Jacob went in again to Bilhah a second time, and she conceived, and bore Jacob another son, and Rachel called his name Naphtali, on the fifth of the seventh month, in the second year of the fourth week. [2130 A.M.]

¹⁹And when Leah saw that she had become sterile and did not bear, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and Leah called his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month, in the third year of the fourth week. [2131 A.M.]

²⁰And he went in again to her, and she conceived, and bore him a second son, and Leah called his name Asher, on the second of the eleventh month, in the fifth year of the fourth week. [2133 A.M.]

²¹And Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Issachar, on the fourth of the fifth month, in the fourth year of the fourth week, [2132 A.M.] and she gave him to a nurse.

²²And Jacob went in again to her, and she conceived, and bore two children, a son and a daughter, and she called the name of the son Zebulun, and the name of the daughter Dinah, on the seventh of the seventh month, in the sixth year of the fourth week. [2134 A.M.]

²³And the Lord was gracious to Rachel, and opened her womb, and she conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Joseph, on the new moon of the fourth month, in the sixth year of this fourth week. [2134 A.M.]

²⁴And in the days when Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban: 'Give me my wives and sons, and let me go to my father Isaac, and let me build myself a house; for I have completed the years in which I have served you for your two daughters, and I will go to the house of my father.'

²⁵And Laban said to Jacob: 'Stay with me for your wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and take your wages.'

²⁶And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those of the lambs and kids which were born black and spotted and white; these were to be his wages.

²⁷And all the sheep brought forth spotted and speckled and black, variously marked, and they brought forth again lambs like themselves, and all that were spotted were Jacob's and those which were not were Laban's.

²⁸And Jacob's possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen and sheep and donkeys and camels, and menservants and maidservants.

²⁹And Laban and his sons envied Jacob, and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he watched him with evil intent.

³⁰And Laban and his sons envied Jacob, and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he watched him with evil intent.