• Jacob leaves Beersheba for Haran, and God appears in a dream beside him and speaks to him the promises he made to Avraham; but these are expanded and more personal.
• Jacob commemorates the place by anointing it and naming it (Beit El / Bethel), then makes a vow to the Lord. If God will return him to his father's house in peace, the Lord will be his God, and he will give a tenth of all that is given him.

B'resheet 29 - Jacob Loves Rachel

• Jacob journeys to the land of the East (Arabic lands) and finds Rachel at the well when inquiring about Laban.
• Jacob determines to work for his place in Laban's home so he is not indebted to him. He also offers to work seven years to earn Rachel (the younger daughter) as his wife.
• v20 So Jacob served seen years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
• Laban deceives Jacob and he marries Leah to him. After fulfilling her marriage week, he then gives Rachel to him, for whom he works another seven years.
• The Lord saw Leah was unloved so he opened her womb. She bore Rueben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.

B'resheet 30 - Jacob's Family Grows

• Bilhah, Rachel's maid bears on her behalf Dan and Naphtali.
• Leah gives Zilpah her maid to Jacob and she bore Gad and Asher.
• Reuben finds mandrakes in the field and gives them to Leah his mother. Rachel asks for them. She agrees to let Jacob lie with Leah for the mandrakes. Leah bears Issachar. She conceives again and bears Zebulun; and again and bears a daughter, Dinah.
• God remembers Rachel and and she conceived and bore Joseph, saying "God has taken away my reproach."
• When Rachel bore Joseph, Jacob tells Laban to send him away to go to his own place and his own country. He has earned his wives and children, and is ready to make provision for their future.
• He works another six years to earn and raise a flock, and though Laban tries to defraud Jacob again, Jacob is strategic in thwarting Laban's intents. He increased exceedingly.

B'resheet 31 - Departing From Laban

• Laban and his sons become envious of Jacob's success. The Lord tell sJacob to return to the land of his fathers, and He will be with him.
• He shares his dream in which the Lord spoke to him with Rachel and Leah; they do not protest leaving since they have no inheritance through their father Laban; God has taken it and given it to them through Jacob.
• Jacob and his house steals away while Laban is in the fields; Rachel steals his idols.
• On the third day, Laban learns of their departure and pursues. They catch up on the seventh day, but God has spoken him and warned him not to speak good or bad of Jacob. Laban was not to entice him by offers of kindness, nor force him to return by threats.
• Laban accuses him of stealing all that he has, including his gods. Jacob allows him to search everywhere for the idols, but Rachel cleverly sits on them to conceal them.
• Jacob rebukes Laban for pursuing him despite the 20 years he worked for all he has earned, and how he was blessed while Jacob was in his service; for unjustly changing his wages ten times.
• Jacob says were it not for God and the Fear of Isaac being with him, surely Laban would have sent him away empty-handed. But God has seen his affliction and the labor of his hands, and rebuked Laban the night before.
• Laban still sees everything of Jacob's as his own, but understands he can do nothing. He makes a covenant with Jacob that they will not cross the boundary to do harm to one another. Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

B'resheet 32:1-2 - Meeting With Angels

• Laban departs, and Jacob continues on. The angels of God met him and he said this is God's camp. He called the place Mahanaim, "two camps".