and there was meat set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat, until I have said mine errand." And he said, "Say on."

And my master made me swear saying, 'Thou shalt not take a wife to my son, among the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell.

But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son.'

And I came this day unto the well and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if it be so that thou makest my journey which I go, prosperous:

behold, I stand by this well of water, and when a virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her 'give me a little water of thy pitcher to drink,'

and she say again to me, 'drink thou, and I will also draw water for thy camels,' that same is the wife, whom the LORD hath prepared for my master's son.'

And I bowed myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

Now, therefore, if ye will deal mercifully and truly with my master, tell me - And if not, tell me also - that I may turn me to the righthand or to the left."

And the servant took forth jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: But unto her brother and to her mother, he gave spices.

And they said, "Let us call the damsel, and wit what she saith to the matter."

and was gone out to walk in his meditations before the even tide. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and behold the camels were coming.

Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.

And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD.

And the LORD said unto her, "There are two manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out of thy bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the eldest shall be servant unto the younger."

And when her time was come to be delivered, behold, there were two twins in her womb.

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 Esau answered, "Lo, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do me?"

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

And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said that she was his sister: for he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him for her sake, because she was beautiful to the eye.

Then Abimelech charged all his people saying, "He that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely die for it."

Afterward departed he thence and came to Beersheba.

Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar; and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol his chief captain.

And Isaac said unto them, "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have put me away from you?"

that thou shouldest do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and have done unto thee nothing but good, and send thee away in peace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORD."

And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away. And they departed from him in peace.

And the same day came Isaac's servants, and told him of a well which they had digged: and said unto him, that they had found water.

And he called it Sheba, wherefore the name of the city is called Beersheba unto this day.

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,

And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. Then called he Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son." And he said unto him, "Here am I."

And he said, "Behold, I am old and know not the day of my death:

Now therefore take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee to the fields, and take me some venison,

and make me meat such as I love, and bring it me and let me eat that my soul may bless thee before that I die."

But Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And as soon as Esau was gone to the field to catch venison, and to bring it,

'bring me venison and make me meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the LORD yer I die.'

get thee to the flock, and bring me thence two good kids, and I will make meat of them for thy father, such as he loveth.

And thou shalt bring it to thy father and he shall eat, that he may bless thee before his death."

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

My father shall peradventure feel me, and I shall seem unto him as though I went about to beguile him, and so shall he bring a curse upon me and not a blessing."

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 he went in to his father saying, "My father." And he answered, "Here am I, who art thou my son?"

But Isaac said unto his son, "How cometh it that thou hast found it so quickly my son?" He answered, "The LORD thy God brought it to my hand."

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.

And he went to him and kissed him. And he smelled the savour of his raiment and blessed him, and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed.

God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine.

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?"

Isaac answered and said unto Esau, "Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his mother's children have I made his servants. Moreover, with corn and wine have I established him. What can I do unto thee now my son?"

Then Isaac his father answered and said unto him, "Behold, thy dwelling place shall have of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.

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.

Now therefore my son hear my voice, make thee ready, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran:

and until thy brother's wrath turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him. Then will I send and fetch thee away from thence. Why should I lose you both in one day?"

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?"

but arise and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

and give thee the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest possess the land - wherein thou art a stranger - which God gave unto Abraham."

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,'

then went he unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wife.

and came unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was down. And took a stone of the place, and put it under his head, and laid him down in the same place to sleep.

And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon 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,

And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone again upon the well's mouth unto his place.

And he said, "Lo, it is yet a great while to night, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water the sheep and go and feed them."

And Laban had two daughters, the eldest called Lea and the youngest Rachel.

And Laban answered, "It is better that I give her thee, than to another man: bide therefore with me."

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

And when even was come, he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her.

And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpah his maid, to be her servant.

And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?"

Laban answered, "It is not the manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest.

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

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her servant.

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

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

And Reuben went out in the wheat harvest and found mandragoras in the fields, and brought them unto his mother Lea. Then said Rachel to Lea, "Give me of thy son's mandragoras."

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.

Then said Lea, "God hath given me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband." And she called him Issachar.

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.

I will go about all thy sheep this day, and separate from them all the sheep that are spotted and of divers colors, and all black sheep among the lambs, and the party and spotted among the kids: And then such shall be my reward.

And he took out that same day the he-goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons,

And he put the staves which he had peeled even before the sheep; in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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 your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.

Moreover, all the riches which God hath taken from our father: that is ours and our children's. Now therefore whatsoever God hath said unto thee, that do."

and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan.

Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

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."

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?

Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps,

and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it,

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.

Then said she to her father, "My lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come upon me." So searched he, but found them not.

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?