Laban (Laban= near Ashnah (Ashnah@Jos.15.33-=H0823))

Laban was Rebekah's brother and Jacob's uncle, and later his father-in-law twice over after tricking Jacob into marrying Leah before Rachel, then extracting fourteen years of labor from him. Laban repeatedly changed Jacob's wages as Jacob's flocks prospered, and Jacob eventually fled with his family and God's blessing rather than continue negotiating with him, though the two men parted with a formal covenant rather than open violence.