Genesis 29: 15-19: “And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.”
Jacob had spent his life as a control freak trying to manage every situation so that he remained in control and reached the goals that he had set for himself. His mother helped in every way that she could. Esau had the confidence of being the older brother and assumed that everything would come easily to him. He didn’t value the things that he hadn’t had to work for. However, as soon as Jacob came to his mother’s home country, his uncle took control and started to manipulate Jacob. He didn’t give him time to settle in and take stock of his situation. At that stage, there is no evidence that Jacob even asked Laban if he could work for him, Laban just assumed that he could get an extra worker who didn’t know the local conditions and he hoped to exploit him. Jacob believed in love at first sight because he fell in love with Rachel when he first met her at the well. He had come to find a wife and he felt that his goal was already achieved so he asked for her to be his wife. On the other hand, Laban was happy to use his daughters as weapons to manipulate Jacob. He made sure that he sounded sincere but he was planning to rip Jacob off. Jacob spent a large part of his life manipulating other people but then he experienced what it was like.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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