We are told that, "Jacob served seven
years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love
he had to her."
But Laban was as crafty as Jacob had been when he obtained his
brother's birthright and robbed him of his blessing. He tricked Jacob
and made him work seven more years for Rachel.
After the second seven years had passed and Jacob had married Rachel,
he made another bargain with Laban and this time it was greatly to his
own advantage. He lived with Laban for a number of years and then God
appeared to him, saying, "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst
the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee
out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred."
So, without letting Laban know anything about it, Jacob took his
family, his flocks and herds and all his possessions, and started for
his father's home in the land of Canaan. He had been gone three days
before Laban knew that he had left him. After seven days he overtook
Jacob camped on Mount Gilead.
When they met, Laban accused Jacob of carrying away some of his
possessions, and searched his tent for them; but after a while, not
finding them, they talked over all that had occurred since Jacob first
came to Laban's house, and in the end they made a covenant or agreement
of friendship and set up a heap of stones for a witness to it and
called it "Mizpah," which means, "The Lord watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from another.
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