THE DISTPUTE BETWEEN LABAN AND JACOB

The Dispute Between Laban And Jacob. On the third day [after his departure] Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
So he took his relatives with him and pursued him for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob, either good or bad.”

SONS BORN TO JACOB

The details of this paragraph are given with great minuteness, because they concern the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of Israel. After all, history is made in the nursery, and we are very much what our mothers have made us in the formative years. F.B.Meyer

JACOB MARRIES LEAH AND RACHEL

Jacob Marries Leah And Rachel.So Jacob complied and fulfilled Leah’s week [of celebration]; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his [second] wife.
Laban also gave Bilhah his maid to his daughter Rachel as a maid.

JACOB SENT AWAY FROM HOME

Jacob Sent Away From Home. So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.
Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take from there as a wife for yourself one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother