jacob runs to laban for protection from his brother esau and laban accepts him, happy to finally have a man in the family. jacob falls in love with his daughter, rachel, and laban exchanges her hand in marriage for 7 years of work. after the 7 years is up, laban gets jacob drunk at his wedding and when it comes time to consumate the marriage, laban makes leah go into the tent instead of rachel and jacob cannot tell the difference and ends up getting married to leah instead. jacob confronts laban and laban agrees to let jacob get married to rachel in one week in exchange for another 7 years of labour. jacob agrees. once those 7 years are up, laban and jacob get into a fight and jacob ends up leaving laban's land.