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Genesis 29:11-15 English Standard Version (ESV)

11. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

12. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman, and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.

13. As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

14. and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

15. Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

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