<p class="bodytext">So Abraham agreed to Ephron&#8217;s price<n id="1" /> and weighed<n id="2" /> out for him<n id="3" /> the price<n id="4" /> that Ephron had quoted<n id="5" /> in the hearing of the sons of Heth &#8211; 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The servant asked him, &#8220;What if the woman is not willing to come back with me<n id="1" /> to this land? Must I then<n id="2" /> take your son back to the land from which you came?&#8221;p>

I will say to a young woman, &#8216;Please lower your jar so I may drink.&#8217; May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll give your camels water too.&#8217;<n id="1" /> In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah<n id="1" /> with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor).<n id="2" />

saying &#8220;Praised be the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love<n id="1" /> for my master! The <sc>Lordsc> has led me<n id="2" /> to the house<n id="3" /> of my master&#8217;s relatives!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Then I asked her, &#8216;Whose daughter are you?&#8217; She replied, &#8216;The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Then I bowed down and worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>. I praised the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter<n id="1" /> of my master&#8217;s brother for his son.

Stay<n id="1" /> in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,<n id="2" /> for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and I will fulfill<n id="4" /> the solemn promise I made<n id="5" /> to your father Abraham.

Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau, your firstborn. I&#8217;ve done as you told me. Now sit up<n id="1" /> and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left<n id="1" /> his father&#8217;s<n id="2" /> presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Esau hated<n id="1" /> Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother.<n id="2" /> Esau said privately,<n id="3" /> &#8220;The time<n id="4" /> of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill<n id="5" /> my brother Jacob!&#8221;p>

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

and the <sc>Lordsc> stood at its top. He said, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will give you and your descendants the ground<n id="2" /> you are lying on.

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, &#8220;If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food<n id="1" /> to eat and clothing to wear,

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban,<n id="1" /> and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he<n id="2" /> went over<n id="3" /> and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.<n id="4" />

My integrity will testify for me<n id="1" /> later on.<n id="2" /> When you come to verify that I&#8217;ve taken only the wages we agreed on,<n id="3" /> if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So that day Laban<n id="1" /> removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care<n id="2" /> of his sons.

Then he said, &#8216;Observe<n id="1" /> that all the male goats mating with<n id="2" /> the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death!<n id="1" /> In the presence of our relatives<n id="2" /> identify whatever is yours and take it.&#8221;<n id="3" /> (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)<n id="4" />p>

I am not worthy of all the faithful love<n id="1" /> you have shown<n id="2" /> your servant. With only my walking stick<n id="3" /> I crossed the Jordan,<n id="4" /> but now I have become two camps.