When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.

“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.