because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My Laws.

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flocks my flocks. All that you see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons which they have borne?

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man because of my hurt.

Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the sincerity of my heart and innocency of my hands I have done this.

And yet truly she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.

But you shall go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son Isaac.

Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: He shall send His Angel before you. And you shall take a wife to my son from there.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not left my master destitute of His mercy and His truth. Jehovah led me, I being in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

But you shall go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son.

And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his Angel with you, and prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred, and from my father's house.

Then shall you be clear from my oath when you come to my kindred, and if they do not give you one, you shall be clear from my oath.

And I bowed my head and worshiped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter to his son.

And now, my son, obey my voice and arise. Flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran,

And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my slave to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service which I have done you.

Unless the God of my fathers, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring down my father here.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said, We will not hide it from my lord, that our silver has failed, also our herds of cattle, going to my lord. Nothing is left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.

Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.