Sowing and Reaping [Annotated, Updated]: Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. – Galatians 6:7

by Dwight L. Moody

Follow him to Padanaram. He was there twenty years, and during that time his wages were changed ten times. He worked seven years for the lovely Rachel, and then was tricked into marrying Rachel’s sister, Leah. Jacob had obtained the blessing of the firstborn son by deception, but Laban sarcastically reminded him, It must not be so done in our country to give the younger before the firstborn (Genesis 29:26). Jacob learned that Laban could drive as sharp a bargain as he could.

He turned Jacob a surplanter, into Israel the father of the 12 tribes.