And the Glory of the Lord stood above him, and He said to him, “I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou art lying I will give to thee and thy sons. And thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth, and shall become strong in the west and in the east, and in the north and in the south; and all the kindreds of the earth shall be blessed through thy righteousness and the righteousness of thy sons.”
When Jacob arrived at Haran, he saw a well in a field, and three flocks lying near it--because from that well they watered the flocks--and a great stone was laid upon the mouth of the well.
And Jacob said to the shepherds, “My brethren, whence are ye?”
And he said, “Know you Laban, son of Nahor?” They answered, “We know him.”
They said, “Peace; and behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh with the sheep.”
And he said, “Behold, the time of the day is great; it is not time to gather home the cattle; water the sheep.”
But they said, “We cannot, until all the shepherds be gathered, and then we can altogether roll away the stone.”
While they were speaking with him, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she was a shepherdess at that time, because there had been a plague among the sheep of Laban, and but few of them were left; and he had dismissed his shepherds, and had put the remaining flock before Rachel, his daughter.
Then Jacob went nigh, and rolled the stone which all the shepherds together could scarce lift, with one of his hands, and the well uprose, and the waters flowed, and he watered the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother; and it uprose for twenty years.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.
And Jacob told Rachel that he was come to be with her father to take one of his daughters. Then Rachel answered him: “Thou canst not dwell with him, for he is a man of cunning.”
But Jacob said, “I am more cunning than he.”
And when she knew that he was the son of Rebekah, she ran and made it known to her father. And when Laban heard the account of the strength of Jacob, his sister’s son, and how he had taken the birthright and the order of blessing from the hand of his brother, and how the Lord had revealed Himself to him in the way, and how the stone had been removed, and how the well had upflowed and risen to the brink,--he ran and kissed him, and led him into his house.