He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can't speak to you bad or good.