because we are about to destroy<n id="1" /> it. The outcry against this place<n id="2" /> is so great before the <sc>Lordsc> that he<n id="3" /> has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning<n id="1" /> Abimelech summoned<n id="2" /> all his servants. When he told them about all these things,<n id="3" /> they<n id="4" /> were terrified.

<p class="bodytext">Abraham replied, &#8220;Because I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of<n id="2" /> my wife.&#8217;

So she said to Abraham, &#8220;Banish<n id="1" /> that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!&#8221;p>

So he<n id="1" /> said to his servants, &#8220;You two stay<n id="2" /> here with the donkey while<n id="3" /> the boy and I go up there. We will worship<n id="4" /> and then return to you.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

And Abraham called the name of that place &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> provides.&#8221;<n id="1" /> It is said to this day,<n id="2" /> &#8220;In the mountain of the <sc>Lordsc> provision will be made.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

When food was served,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;Tell us,&#8221; Laban said.<n id="3" />p>

But he said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t detain me &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return<n id="2" /> to my master.&#8221;

He<n id="1" /> went out to relax<n id="2" /> in the field in the early evening.<n id="3" /> Then he looked up<n id="4" /> and saw that<n id="5" /> there were camels approaching.

<p class="bodytext">These are the names of Ishmael&#8217;s sons, by their names according to their records:<n id="1" /> Nebaioth (Ishmael&#8217;s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

<p class="bodytext">Isaac prayed to<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The <sc>Lordsc> answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

<p class="bodytext">That day Isaac&#8217;s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. &#8220;We&#8217;ve found water,&#8221; they reported.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Esau was forty years old,<n id="2" /> he married<n id="3" /> Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Esau said to his father, &#8220;Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!&#8221;<n id="1" /> Then Esau wept loudly.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will live by your swordp> <p class="poetry">but you will serve your brother.p> <p class="poetry">When you grow restless,p> <p class="poetry">you will tear off his yokep> <p class="poetry">from your neck.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

He was afraid and said, &#8220;What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!&#8221;p>

Then Jacob<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since it is still the middle of the day,<n id="2" /> it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;Should you work<n id="1" /> for me for nothing because you are my relative?<n id="2" /> Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Jacob became angry<n id="1" /> and argued with Laban. &#8220;What did I do wrong?&#8221; he demanded of Laban.<n id="2" /> &#8220;What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.