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 27:1  And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his
eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him,
Behold, [here am] I.
 27:2  And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of
my death:
 27:3  Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some]
venison;
 27:4  And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it]
to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I
die.
 27:5  And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And
Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring
[it].
 27:6  And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
 27:7  Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may
eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
 27:8  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that
which I command thee.
 27:9  Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good
kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy
father, such as he loveth:
 27:10  And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may
eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
 27:11  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my
brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
 27:12  My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem
to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
 27:13  And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse,
my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].
 27:14  And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father
loved.
 27:15  And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau,
which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her
younger son:
 27:16  And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
 27:17  And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she
had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
 27:18  And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and
he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?
 27:19  And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy
firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I
pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless
me.
 27:20  And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou hast
found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD
thy God brought [it] to me.
 27:21  And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that
I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or
not.
 27:22  And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt
him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands
[are] the hands of Esau.
 27:23  And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy,
as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
 27:24  And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said,
I [am].
 27:25  And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of
my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought
[it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and
he drank.
 27:26  And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and
kiss me, my son.
 27:27  And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the
smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell
of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath
blessed:
 27:28  Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
 27:29  Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to
thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be]
he that blesseth thee.
 27:30  And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end
of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in
from his hunting.
 27:31  And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto
his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and
eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
 27:32  And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art] thou? And
he said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
 27:33  And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?
where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and
I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?
yea, [and] he shall be blessed.
 27:34  And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried
with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.
 27:35  And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath
taken away thy blessing.
 27:36  And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and,
behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast
thou not reserved a blessing for me?
 27:37  And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have
made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what
shall I do now unto thee, my son?
 27:38  And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
 27:39  And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of
the dew of heaven from above;
 27:40  And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy
brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
 27:41  And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith
his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother
Jacob.
 27:42  And these words of Esau her elder son were told to
Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and
said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth
comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.
 27:43  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee
thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
 27:44  And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury
turn away;
 27:45  Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he
forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send,
and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of
you both in one day?
 27:46  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters
of the land, what good shall my life do me?
 28:1  And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged
him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
 28:2  Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
 28:3  And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
 28:4  And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to
thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein
thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
 28:5  And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
 28:6  When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him
away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as
he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
 28:7  And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was
gone to Padanaram;
 28:8  And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father;
 28:9  Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives
which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son,
the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
 28:10  And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward
Haran.
 28:11  And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there
all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones
of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in
that place to sleep.
 28:12  And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the
angels of God ascending and descending on it.
 28:13  And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am]
the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy
seed;
 28:14  And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and
thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be blessed.
 28:15  And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in
all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that]
which I have spoken to thee of.
 28:16  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely
the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
 28:17  And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this
place! this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is]
the gate of heaven.
 28:18  And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the
stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
 28:19  And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the
name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.
 28:20  And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me,
and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread
to eat, and raiment to put on,
 28:21  So that I come again to my father's house in peace;
then shall the LORD be my God:
 28:22  And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall
be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.
 29:1  Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land
of the people of the east.
 29:2  And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,
there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that
well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the
well's mouth.
 29:3  And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
 29:4  And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye?
And they said, Of Haran [are] we.
 29:5  And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
And they said, We know [him].
 29:6  And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He
is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
 29:7  And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it]
time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the
sheep, and go [and] feed [them].
 29:8  And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be
gathered together, and [till] they roll the stone from the
well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
 29:9  And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep: for she kept them.
 29:10  And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter
of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
mother's brother.
 29:11  And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept.
 29:12  And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's
brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told
her father.
 29:13  And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of
Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told
Laban all these things.
 29:14  And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my
flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
 29:15  And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my
brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what [shall] thy wages [be]?
 29:16  And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder
[was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.
 29:17  Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and
well favoured.
 29:18  And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee
seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
 29:19  And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee,
than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
 29:20  And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they
seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.
 29:21  And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my
days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
 29:22  And Laban gathered together all the men of the place,
and made a feast.
 29:23  And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah
his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
 29:24  And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid
[for] an handmaid.
 29:25  And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it
[was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done
unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then
hast thou beguiled me?
 29:26  And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country,
to give the younger before the firstborn.
 29:27  Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for
the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years.
 29:28  And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave
him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
 29:29  And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her maid.
 29:30  And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also
Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other
years.
 29:31  And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened
her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.
 29:32  And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his
name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
 29:33  And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,
Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath
therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name
Simeon.
 29:34  And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now
this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have
born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
 29:35  And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said,
Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.
 30:1  And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
 30:2  And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he
said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the
fruit of the womb?
 30:3  And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and
she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
her.
 30:4  And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob
went in unto her.
 30:5  And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
 30:6  And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard
my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
 30:7  And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob
a second son.
 30:8  And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled
with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
 30:9  When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah
her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
 30:10  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
 30:11  And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name
Gad.
 30:12  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
 30:13  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call
me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
 30:14  And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
 30:15  And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou
hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
 30:16  And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me;
for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he
lay with her that night.
 30:17  And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and
bare Jacob the fifth son.
 30:18  And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I
have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
 30:19  And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
 30:20  And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry;
now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six
sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
 30:21  And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
Dinah.
 30:22  And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,
and opened her womb.
 30:23  And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath
taken away my reproach:
 30:24  And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD
shall add to me another son.
 30:25  And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that
Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
 30:26  Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have
served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
 30:27  And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found
favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience
that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
 30:28  And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give
[it].
 30:29  And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served
thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
 30:30  For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came],
and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath
blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also?
 30:31  And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said,
Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock.
 30:32  I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown
cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the
goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
 30:33  So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to
come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one
that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown
among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
 30:34  And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according
to thy word.
 30:35  And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in
it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the
hand of his sons.
 30:36  And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and
Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
 30:37  And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the
hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and
made the white appear which [was] in the rods.
 30:38  And he set the rods which he had pilled before the
flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to
drink.
 30:39  And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
 30:40  And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of
the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the
flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and
put them not unto Laban's cattle.
 30:41  And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
 30:42  But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in:
so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
 30:43  And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle,
and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
 31:1  And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob
hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that]
which [was] our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
 31:2  And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold,
it [was] not toward him as before.
 31:3  And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of
thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
 31:4  And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field
unto his flock,
 31:5  And said unto them, I see your father's countenance,
that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father
hath been with me.
 31:6  And ye know that with all my power I have served your
father.
 31:7  And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages
ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
 31:8  If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then
all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The
ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle
ringstreaked.
 31:9  Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
given [them] to me.
 31:10  And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were]
ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled.
 31:11  And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,
[saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
 31:12  And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the
rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstreaked, speckled,
and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
 31:13  I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get
thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy
kindred.
 31:14  And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is
there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's
house?
 31:15  Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold
us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
 31:16  For all the riches which God hath taken from our
father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now then,
whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
 31:17  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
 31:18  And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods
which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had
gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land
of Canaan.
 31:19  And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had
stolen the images that [were] her father's.
 31:20  And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in
that he told him not that he fled.
 31:21  So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and
passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount
Gilead.
 31:22  And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
fled.
 31:23  And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after
him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount
Gilead.
 31:24  And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night,
and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
 31:25  Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his
tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the
mount of Gilead.
 31:26  And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou
hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters,
as captives [taken] with the sword?
 31:27  Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away
from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee
away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
 31:28  And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.
 31:29  It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the
God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou
heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
 31:30  And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because
thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore
hast thou stolen my gods?
 31:31  And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force
thy daughters from me.
 31:32  With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not
live: before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me,
and take [it] to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had
stolen them.
 31:33  And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,
and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found [them] not.
Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent.
 31:34  Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the
camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found [them] not.
 31:35  And she said to her father, Let it not displease my
lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women
[is] upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
 31:36  And Jacob was wroth, and chided with Laban: and Jacob
answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my
sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
 31:37  Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou
found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before my
brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
 31:38  This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes
and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of
thy flock have I not eaten.
 31:39  That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto
thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,
[whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.
 31:40  [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and
the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
 31:41  Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served
thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for
thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
 31:42  Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and
the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me
away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of
my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
 31:43  And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These]
daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my
children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou
seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my
daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
 31:44  Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and
thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
 31:45  And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
 31:46  And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and
they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon
the heap.
 31:47  And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
Galeed.
 31:48  And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and
thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
 31:49  And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and
thee, when we are absent one from another.
 31:50  If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt
take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us;
see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
 31:51  And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold
[this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
 31:52  This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou
shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for
harm.
 31:53  The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of
their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of
his father Isaac.
 31:54  Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called
his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried
all night in the mount.
 31:55  And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his
sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed,
and returned unto his place.
 32:1  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him.
 32:2  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host:
and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
 32:3  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
 32:4  And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto
my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed there until now:
 32:5  And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
grace in thy sight.
 32:6  And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to
thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
hundred men with him.
 32:7  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and
herds, and the camels, into two bands;
 32:8  And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,
then the other company which is left shall escape.
 32:9  And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of
my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
 32:10  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of
all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for
with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become
two bands.
 32:11  Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and
smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
 32:12  And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make
thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
 32:13  And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
 32:14  Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
ewes, and twenty rams,
 32:15  Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and
ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
 32:16  And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants,
every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass
over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
 32:17  And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art]
thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before
thee?
 32:18  Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's; it
[is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he
[is] behind us.
 32:19  And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all
that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak
unto Esau, when ye find him.
 32:20  And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is]
behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present
that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face;
peradventure he will accept of me.
 32:21  So went the present over before him: and himself lodged
that night in the company.
 32:22  And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the
ford Jabbok.
 32:23  And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and
sent over that he had.
 32:24  And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with
him until the breaking of the day.
 32:25  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
 32:26  And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
 32:27  And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said,
Jacob.
 32:28  And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with
men, and hast prevailed.
 32:29  And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray
thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost
ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
 32:30  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
 32:31  And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and
he halted upon his thigh.
 32:32  Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew
which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the
sinew that shrank.
 33:1  And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,
Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the
children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
 33:2  And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,
and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
 33:3  And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
 33:4  And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on
his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
 33:5  And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The
children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
 33:6  Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children,
and they bowed themselves.
 33:7  And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
 33:8  And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which
I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of
my lord.
 33:9  And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou
hast unto thyself.
 33:10  And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found
grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face
of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
 33:11  Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have
enough. And he urged him, and he took [it].
 33:12  And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go,
and I will go before thee.
 33:13  And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children
[are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with
me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock
will die.
 33:14  Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:
and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth
before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto
my lord unto Seir.
 33:15  And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the
folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me
find grace in the sight of my lord.
 33:16  So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
 33:17  And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house,
and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place
is called Succoth.
 33:18  And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is]
in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched
his tent before the city.
 33:19  And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread
his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for an hundred pieces of money.
 33:20  And he erected there an altar, and called it
Elelohe-Israel.