The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.

When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."

She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."

The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."

The LORD has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.

Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

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

It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

Leah said, "How fortunate." She named him Gad.

Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

She named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add another son to me."

Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he was running away.

He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."

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

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

When he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

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

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

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

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.