&#8220;Is he well?&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jacob asked. They replied, &#8220;He is well.<n id="2" /> Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father&#8217;s sheep, for she was tending them.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch<n id="1" /> passed between the animal parts.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up<n id="1" /> and saw<n id="2" /> a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">They said to one other,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Surely we&#8217;re being punished<n id="2" /> because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was<n id="3" /> when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress<n id="4" /> has come on us!&#8221;