<t /><p class="bodytext">So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God<n id="1" /> met him.

<p class="poetry">Israel moved to<n id="1" /> Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">Jacob lived for a time<n id="2" /> in the land of Ham.p>

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,<n id="1" /> but Jacob called it Galeed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled<n id="1" /> hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out.<n id="1" /> So Esau despised his birthright.<n id="2" />p>

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey,<n id="1" /> while<n id="2" /> Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban&#8217;s flocks.p>

<p class="bodytext">Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.<n id="1" />

But<n id="1" /> Jacob traveled to Succoth<n id="2" /> where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called<n id="3" /> Succoth.<n id="4" />p>

When<n id="1" /> Jacob heard that Shechem<n id="2" /> had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent<n id="3" /> until they came in.p>

Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors.<n id="1" /> He died an old man who had lived a full life.<n id="2" /> His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.p>

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,<n id="1" /> while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Go and bring together<n id="1" /> the elders of Israel and tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your fathers,<n id="2" /> appeared<n id="3" /> to me &#8211; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob &#8211; saying, &#8220;I have attended carefully<n id="4" /> to you and to what has been done<n id="5" /> to you in Egypt,

But the <sc>Lordsc> had mercy on them and felt pity for them.<n id="1" /> He extended his favor to them<n id="2" /> because of the promise he had made<n id="3" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.<n id="4" />

Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David&#8217;s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed,<n id="1" /> I will restore them<n id="2" /> and show mercy to them.&#8221;p>