But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!”

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt – Jacob and his sons: Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. “What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban. “What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.

All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.