Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

Esau exclaimed, &#8220;&#8216;Jacob&#8217; is the right name for him!<n id="1" /> He has tripped me up<n id="2" /> two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!&#8221; Then he asked, &#8220;Have you not kept back a blessing for me?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I am deeply depressed<n id="1" /> because of these daughters of Heth.<n id="2" /> If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

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,

<p class="bodytext">She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> heard that I was unloved,<n id="1" /> he gave me this one too.&#8221; So she named him Simeon.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she<n id="1" /> became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, &#8220;Give me children<n id="2" /> or I&#8217;ll die!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">At the time<n id="1" /> of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants<n id="2" /> in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, &#8220;Give me some of your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;

I am the God of Bethel,<n id="1" /> where you anointed<n id="2" /> the sacred stone and made a vow to me.<n id="3" /> Now leave this land immediately<n id="4" /> and return to your native land.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Rachel<n id="1" /> said to her father, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be angry,<n id="2" /> my lord. I cannot stand up<n id="3" /> in your presence because I am having my period.&#8221;<n id="4" /> So he searched thoroughly,<n id="5" /> but did not find the idols.p>

This was my lot<n id="1" /> for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave<n id="2" /> for you &#8211; fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

If the God of my father &#8211; the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears<n id="1" /> &#8211; had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked,<n id="2" /> and he rebuked you last night.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Laban replied<n id="1" /> to Jacob, &#8220;These women<n id="2" /> are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,<n id="3" /> and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today<n id="4" /> or the children to whom they have given birth?

<p class="bodytext">Then he had another dream,<n id="1" /> and told it to his brothers. &#8220;Look,&#8221;<n id="2" /> he said. &#8220;I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;

He turned aside to her along the road and said, &#8220;Come on! I want to have sex with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> (He did not realize<n id="2" /> it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, &#8220;What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?&#8221;<n id="3" />

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men<n id="1" /> among them, put them in charge<n id="2" /> of my livestock.&#8221;p>

&#8216;My father made me swear an oath. He said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am about to die. Bury me<n id="2" /> in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.&#8221; Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.&#8217;&#8221;