“Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife, as my time is fulfilled, and I will consort with her” (Genesis 29:21). “Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife” – Rabbi Aivu said: Even a dissolute person does not use that language, but Jacob said so: “Give me my wife…and I will consort with her”? Rather, this is what he said to him: ‘The Holy One blessed be He said to me that I would produce twelve tribes. Now, I am approximately eighty-four years old, and if I do not produce them now, when will I produce them?’ That is why it was necessary for the verse to say: “Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife.”