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Then Jacob said, "Swear to me {first}." And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanYielding To Temptation

And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you.

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingGod Forbiddingland

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Surely she [is] your wife. Now why did you say 'She [is] my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her."

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfOwning LivestockThose Who EnviedPossessing Sheeppossessions

Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, "I [am] the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I [am] with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham."

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversFear, Overcome ByProsperity PromisedGod With YouVisions At NightGod AppearingGod Multipling PeopleI Am GodGod Will BlessDo Not Fear For God Will HelpFor The Sake Of God's People

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol his army commander.

Verse Conceptsadvisers

And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other, and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

And it happened [that] on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, "We have found water!"

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

And it happened [that] when Isaac [was] old and {his eyesight was weak}, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I [am]."

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Causes OfOld Age, DisabilitiesEyes, Affected BydisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfVisionWeakness, PhysicalDimness Of VisionBehold Me!Others Summoning

Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice--go and get [them] for me."

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice [is] the voice of Jacob, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau."

Verse ConceptsVoicesContact With PeopleRecognising Thingscheaters

And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.

Verse ConceptsHairy PeopleNot Recognising PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

Then he said, "Bring [it] near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you." And he brought [it] to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.

Verse ConceptsWineProviding WinePeople Blessing

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingContact With People

And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "Look, the smell of my son [is] like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingNosesContact With PeopleBlessed By GodPeople Who Blessed Others

And Isaac his father said to him, "Who [are] you?" And he said, "I [am] your son, your firstborn, Esau."

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsWho Is This?This Is Me

Then Isaac {trembled violently}. Then he said, "Who then [was] he that hunted wild game and brought [it] to me, and I ate [it] all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!"

Verse ConceptsTremblingIndividuals TremblingWho Is This?People Blessing

Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and [with] grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?"

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleProviding Wine

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Your home shall be from the fatness of the land, and from the dew of heaven above.

Verse ConceptsdewLack Of Rain

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, "Look, Esau your brother [is] consoling himself concerning you, [intending] to kill you.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTelling What People Said

until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?"

Verse ConceptsAnger, Sinful ExamplesForgetting ThingsAnger SubsidingBereavement

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsRacial PrejudiceWives, Duties OfIntermarriageOthers SummoningMen's OrdersPeople Who Blessed OthersInterracial Marriage

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTaking A WifePeople Who Blessed Others

And behold, Yahweh [was] standing beside him, and he said, "I [am] Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you [were] sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

And he said to them, "Do you know Laban, son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know [him]."

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenKnowing PeopleImmigrants

And it happened [that] when Laban heard the message about Jacob, the son of his sister, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingArmsKissingIndividuals RunningNamed Sisters

And Laban said to him, "Surely you [are] my flesh and my bone!" And he stayed with him a month.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodyOne MonthSame Bone And Fleshspace

And it happened [that] in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenExchange Of Individuals

And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this [one], then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningPolygamyMan's Work Finished

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore, she called his name Levi.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenPeople With Apt Names

Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, "Come in to me, for {I have hired} you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night.

Verse ConceptsHiringMarital SexMeeting PeopleMarital Sex Between

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodPeople With Apt Names

But Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you."

Verse ConceptsLearningBlessing Through God's People

Then he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeServing IndividualsThose Who Kept Stock

And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban's flock.

Verse ConceptsFeedingWeights And Measures, DistancesDeparturesThree DaysThose Who Kept Stock

Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "[Is there] yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?

Verse ConceptsNot Sharing

Are we not regarded [as] foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?

Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

And Jacob {tricked} Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he [intended to] flee.

Verse ConceptsOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysOvertaking

And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care} that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."

Verse ConceptsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightSpeech, DivineWarning IndividualsDirect Communication Through Dreams

And Jacob went on his way, and angels of God met him.

Verse ConceptsMeeting GodAngels Going At God's Bidding

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutMessenger

And the messengers returned to Jacob [and] said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men [are] with him."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutFour To Five HundredMeeting PeopleFour And Five Hundred

Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that [were] with him into two companies.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InTwo GroupsOwning LivestockHalf Of GroupsFear Of IndividualsPossessing Sheep

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children [alike].

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalKilling Whole FamiliesFear Of IndividualsPeople Attacking Their OwnMotherhood

And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him} a gift for Esau his brother:

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingStaying Temporarily

And he also instructed the second [servant] and the third, and everyone [else] who [was] behind the herds, saying, "You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob [is] behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him} with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."

So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelStaying Temporarily

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesInjuryTouchWeakness, PhysicalDislocatingThighsTouching To HarmWrestlingmuscles

Then he said to him, "What [is] your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

Verse ConceptsTrinity

Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakAt Daybreak

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau [was] coming and four hundred men [were] with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredSeeing PeopleFamily Conflict

Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because {I have enough}." And he urged him, so he took [it].

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children [are] frail, and the flocks and the cattle [which are] nursing [are a concern] to me. Now [if] they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Visiting

And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son {is in love with} your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

Then Jacob said to his household and to all who [were] with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that [are] in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

And Jacob came to Luz which [was] in the land of Canaan (that [is] Bethel), he and all the people that [were] with him.

And he built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, for there God had appeared to him when he fled before his brother.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesBuilding AltarsGod AppearingAltars

And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he blessed him.

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingBlessed By God

And God said to him, "Your name [is] Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Then his name was called Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod Renaming People

And God said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalBlessings, To AbrahamBodyGod, Power OfProcreationI Am Godfruitfulness

And God went up from him at the place where he spoke with him.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingGod Speaking

And Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering upon it, and poured oil on it.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringCeremoniesOilPouringMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsAnointing ThingsMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Verse ConceptsBethel The House Of GodPeople Naming Things

And it happened [that] when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsAfterlifePainSuffering, Nature OfBlessings For The Right HandPeople With Apt NamesIntermediate StateMothers DeathDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A Father

The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These [were] the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfOld Age, Attainment OfDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherFamily Death

and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These [are] the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] to his brothers. And {they hated him even more}.

Verse ConceptsDreams, Examples OfGrudgesSelf ConfidenceHating IndividualsSiblings

Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And {they hated him even more} on account of his dream and because of his words.

Verse ConceptsHating Individualsdominion

And he told [it] to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What [is] this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?"

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before JosephWhat Is This?Immigrants

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter [in mind].

Verse ConceptsMotives, Examples OfEnvy, Example OfPeople RememberingThose Jealous Of People

Then he said to him, "Go now, see {if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock}, then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem.

Verse ConceptsCareCare, HumanPeople Sending People

And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, "What do you seek?"

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Verse ConceptsPlottingSeeing At A DistanceAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleSeeing PeopleConspiracySiblingsdistance

Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become."

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

And Reuben heard [it] and delivered him from their hand and said, "We must not take his life."

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that [is] in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him"--so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father.

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

And it happened [that] as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves, that [was] upon him.

Verse ConceptsFine ClothesPeople Stripping PeopleMulti ColouredColor

And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit [was] empty; there was no water in it).

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he [is] our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed.

Verse ConceptsCommerceSame Bone And Flesh

Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and brought [him] up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty [pieces of] silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

And he recognized it and said, "The robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph [is] surely torn to pieces!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesFine ClothesAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals Devouring

And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldSheolWeepingComfort, Of FriendsParental LoveAfflicted To DeathNo Comfort

And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsExecutionersCommerce

And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him.

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