Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Then his brothers asked him, “Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and because of what he said.

Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said, “We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

He replied, “I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked, “Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

Every firstling of a donkey you must redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.