I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel

Genesis 29:1-35

While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

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. Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”

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

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?” Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”

Why?

Jacob is cheating his brother, but Jacob was cheated by his uncle Laban. So all of these have God's plan for Jacob.

The Lord let Jacob have a large family, so in these environments, Rachel and Leah gave Jacob 12 children.

How?

God's way is always beyond our way and our mind.