So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Jacob said, “Swear to me that you will do so.” So Joseph gave him his word. Then Israel bowed down at the head of his bed.

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

“Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord,

So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

So Jacob said to him, “Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

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

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.

So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.