Genesis 29

Question 1

Genesis 29:1

Answer 1

Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.

Question 2

Genesis 29:2

Answer 2

There he saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

Question 3

Genesis 29:3

Answer 3

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Question 4

Genesis 29:4

Answer 4

Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We’re from Haran,” they replied.

Question 5

Genesis 29:5

Answer 5

He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered.

Question 6

Genesis 29:6

Answer 6

Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

Question 7

Genesis 29:7

Answer 7

“Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

Question 8

Genesis 29:8

Answer 8

“We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Question 9

Genesis 29:9

Answer 9

While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Question 10

Genesis 29:10

Answer 10

When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Question 11

Genesis 29:11

Answer 11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

Question 12

Genesis 29:12

Answer 12

He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

Question 13

Genesis 29:13

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Genesis 29:14

Answer 14

Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

Question 15

Genesis 29:15

Answer 15

Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Question 16

Genesis 29:16

Answer 16

Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Question 17

Genesis 29:17

Answer 17

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful.

Question 18

Genesis 29:18

Answer 18

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Question 19

Genesis 29:19

Answer 19

Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”

Question 20

Genesis 29:20

Answer 20

So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Question 21

Genesis 29:21

Answer 21

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her.”

Question 22

Genesis 29:22

Answer 22

So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.

Question 23

Genesis 29:23

Answer 23

But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her.

Question 24

Genesis 29:24

Answer 24

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her maidservant.

Question 25

Genesis 29:25

Answer 25

When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?" 

Question 26

Genesis 29:26

Answer 26

Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. 

Question 27

Genesis 29:27

Answer 27

Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work." 

Question 28

Genesis 29:28

Answer 28

And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 

Question 29

Genesis 29:29

Answer 29

Laban gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant. 

Question 30

Genesis 29:30

Answer 30

Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years. 

Question 31

Genesis 29:31

Answer 31

When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 

Question 32

Genesis 29:32

Answer 32

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, "It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now." 

Question 33

Genesis 29:33

Answer 33

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon. 

Question 34

Genesis 29:34

Answer 34

Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi. 

Question 35

Genesis 29:35

Answer 35

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.