&#8216;Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat<n id="1" /> it and bless you<n id="2" /> in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> before I die.&#8217;

He prayed, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, God of my master Abraham, guide me today.<n id="1" /> Be faithful<n id="2" /> to my master Abraham.

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then<n id="1" /> I will eat it so that I may bless you<n id="2" /> before I die.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons<n id="1" /> because he was a son born to him late in life,<n id="2" /> and he made a special<n id="3" /> tunic for him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel<n id="2" /> and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.&#8221;<n id="3" />