Run there quickly,<n id="1" /> for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.&#8221; (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)<n id="2" />p>

What&#8217;s more,<n id="1" /> she is indeed my sister, my father&#8217;s daughter, but not my mother&#8217;s daughter. She became my wife.

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>

&#8220;No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell<n id="1" /> you both the field and the cave that is in it.<n id="2" /> In the presence of my people<n id="3" /> I sell it to you. Bury your dead.&#8221;p>

so that I may make you solemnly promise<n id="1" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire<n id="2" /> a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

My master made me swear an oath. He said, &#8216;You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

You will be free from your oath<n id="1" /> if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Then Laban and Bethuel replied, &#8220;This is the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s doing.<n id="1" /> Our wishes are of no concern.<n id="2" />

so that<n id="1" /> you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed<n id="2" /> you, but have always treated you well<n id="3" /> before sending you away<n id="4" /> in peace. Now you are blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Then Isaac said to Jacob, &#8220;Come closer so I can touch you,<n id="1" /> my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, &#8220;You must not marry a Canaanite woman!<n id="1" />

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" />

&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they said, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water<n id="1" /> the sheep.&#8221;p>

But you<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I will certainly make you prosper<n id="2" /> and will make<n id="3" /> your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

When the man<n id="1" /> saw that he could not defeat Jacob,<n id="2" /> he struck<n id="3" /> the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.p>

&#8220;No longer will your name be Jacob,&#8221; the man told him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;but Israel,<n id="2" /> because you have fought<n id="3" /> with God and with men and have prevailed.&#8221;p>

They said to them, &#8220;We cannot give<n id="1" /> our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace<n id="2" /> to us.

Then they brought the special tunic to their father<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;We found this. Determine now whether it is your son&#8217;s tunic or not.&#8221;p>

He asked the men who were there,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is the cult prostitute<n id="2" /> who was at Enaim by the road?&#8221; But they replied, &#8220;There has been no cult prostitute here.&#8221;