OT Notes Gen. 29:15-28
1)Notice that he takes after his mother in helping with the watering.
2) Rachel means  perhaps a ewe or journey, also possibly linked to purity as well-Leah means perhaps weary, maybe delicate  Laban means white but is also related, of all things, to make bricks, as in Gen. 11, may also be linked to moon or  Lebanon and trees?
3) Laban is another Jacob, although worse, if such a thing is possible. Look at the scene when Jacob departs at ch.30-31, and the daughters have learned trickery from 2 masters.
4) The family issue for infertility continues. Also, can you imagine the intrigues with four wives, with two of the wives allied to the sisters? How do you think ti had an impact on the relationship of Leah and Rachel, and their father?
5) Why the trickery with Leah? Would it be just for more free labor? she has "weak" eyes maybe poor in vision, or lighter in color, or delicate, as befitting her name. Rachel is depicted as a stunner.
6) Jacob plays off Isaac's blindness. Now how blind was he really in the tent/ Blind drunk perhaps? Perhaps Leah played Rachel, as Jacob had played Esau?
7) Notice the elder/younger tension playing not only in Esau/Jacob, but now Leah/Rachel. The issue of playing favorites continues.
8) thsi could be a good introduction to the issue of waiting for a long time