“Laban responded and said to Jacob: The girls are my daughters, and the boys are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and everything that you see is mine, and to my daughters, what can I do to them today, or to their children whom they have borne?” (Genesis 31:43). “Laban responded and said to Jacob: The girls are my daughters, and the boys are my sons” – Rabbi Avin said: All of them were his daughters: “The girls are my daughters” – that is two; “And to my daughters, what can I do” – that is four.32Bilha and Zilpa too.
The Rabbis cite it from here: “If you afflict my daughters” (Genesis 31:50) – that is two; “or if you take wives in addition to my daughters” (Genesis 31:50) – that is four. “And now let us, me and you, make a covenant, and let it be a witness between me and you” (Genesis 31:44). “Jacob took a stone, and established it as a monument” (Genesis 31:45). “Jacob took a stone” – Rabbi Yoḥanan said: It was like that protruding stone of Tiberias.
“Jacob said to his brethren: Gather stones, and they took stones and made a pile, and they ate there on the pile” (Genesis 31:46). “Jacob said to his brethren: Gather stones” – how many brothers did he have? He had one, if only he had buried him. It is, rather, his sons, who are called his brethren in the sacred tongue.
Rav Huna said: They were mighty like him; righteous like him. Rabbi Yudan said: When a person dons his father’s garments, he is like him.