And afterward his brother came out, and his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare them:

and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the field and was fainty,

and said to Jacob, "Let me sip of that red pottage, for I am fainty." And therefore was his name called Edom.

And Jacob said, "Sell me this day thy birthright."

And Jacob said, "Swear to me then this day." And he swore to him and sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of red rice. And he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.

she spake unto Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I have heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying,

Then said Jacob to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is rough and I am smooth.

And Jacob went and fetched them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made meat of them, according as his father loved.

And she went and fetched goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which she had in the house with her, and put them upon Jacob her youngest son,

And she put the meat and bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob.

And Jacob said unto his father, "I am Esau, thy eldest son. I have done according as thou baddest me: up and sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me."

Then said Isaac unto Jacob, "Come near and let me feel thee my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not."

Then went Jacob to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting:

Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times - first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"

And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."

And these words of Esau her eldest son, were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her youngest son, and said unto him, "Behold, thy brother Esau threateneth to kill thee.

And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"

Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying 'see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,'

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran,

When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware."

And Jacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head, and pitched it up on end, and poured oil on the top of it.

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to put on,

Then Jacob lift up his feet, and went toward the east country.

And Jacob said unto them, "Brethren, whence be ye?" And they said, "Of Haran are we."

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, he went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.

And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lift up his voice and wept:

When Laban heard tell of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran against him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him into his house. And then Jacob told Laban all the matter.

And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?"

And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come."

And Jacob did even so, and passed out that week, and then he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her:

And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son.

And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again; and bare Jacob another son.

When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

And Zilpah Lea's maid bare Jacob a son.

And Zilpah, Lea's maid, bare Jacob another son.

And when Jacob came from the fields at even, Lea went out to meet him, and said, "Come in to me, for I have bought thee with my son's mandragoras." And he slept with her that night.

And God heard Lea, that she conceived and bare unto Jacob the fifth son.

And Lea conceived yet again and bare Jacob the sixth son.

As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country;

And he said, "What shall I give thee?" And Jacob answered, "Thou shalt give me nothing at all, if thou wilt do this one thing for me: And then will I turn again and feed thy sheep and keep them.

and set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Laban's sheep.

Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees, and peeled white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves:

Then Jacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by themself, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban.

And always in the first bucking time of the sheep, Jacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the staves:

But in the latter bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Jacob's.

And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour."

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past.

And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."

Then Jacob sent and called Rachel and Lea to the field unto his sheep,

And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying, 'Jacob?' And I answered, 'Here am I.'

Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon camels,

And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled.

Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was fled.

And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."

And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead.

Then said Laban to Jacob, "Why hast thou this done, unknowing to me, and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword?

for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spake unto me yesterday, saying, 'take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.'

Jacob answered, and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me.

But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee." For Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them.

Then went Laban into Jacob's tent, and into Lea's tent, and into two maidens' tents: but found them not. Then went he out of Lea's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me?

Laban answered and said unto Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, 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?

Then took Jacob a stone and set it up on end,

And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called Gilead.

And Laban said moreover to Jacob, "Behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here, betwixt me and thee:

The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared.

Then Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill.

But Jacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God came and met him.

And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host," and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.

Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, "See that ye speak after this manner to my LORD Esau, 'thy servant, Jacob, sayeth thus: I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time;

And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."

Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,

And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'

thou shalt say, 'they be thy servant Jacob's, and are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and behold, he himself cometh after us.'"

and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the thigh, and the sinew of Jacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with him.

And he said unto him, "What is thy name?" He answered, "Jacob."

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

And Jacob asked him, saying, "Tell me thy name." And he said, "Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?" And he blessed him there.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."

Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rachel and unto the two maidens.

Jacob answered, "O nay, but if I have found grace in thy sight, receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God: wherefore receive me to grace

And Jacob took his journey toward Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: whereof the name of the place is called Succoth.

And Jacob came peaceably into the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched before the city;

Dina, the daughter of Lea which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

and his heart lay unto Dina, the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto her,