<t /><p class="bodytext">Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

<p class="bodytext">So Abram left,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him to do,<n id="2" /> and Lot went with him. (Now<n id="3" /> Abram was 75 years old<n id="4" /> when he departed from Haran.)

So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Jacob moved on<n id="1" /> and came to the land of the eastern people.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> went on his way<n id="1" /> when he had finished speaking<n id="2" /> to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.<n id="3" />p>

The man became wealthy.<n id="1" /> His influence continued to grow<n id="2" /> until he became very prominent.

<p class="bodytext">So he went and got the goats<n id="1" /> and brought them to his mother. She<n id="2" /> prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

<p class="bodytext">Then the servant took ten of his master&#8217;s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal.<n id="1" /> He journeyed<n id="2" /> to the region of Aram Naharaim<n id="3" /> and the city of Nahor.

<p class="bodytext">And he journeyed from place to place<n id="1" /> from the Negev as far as Bethel.<n id="2" /> He returned<n id="3" /> to the place where he had pitched his tent<n id="4" /> at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

<p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with<n id="1" /> the man. So Abraham&#8217;s servant<n id="2" /> took Rebekah and left.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out.<n id="1" /> So Esau despised his birthright.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred<n id="1" /> in the days of Abraham.<n id="2" /> Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

<p class="bodytext">Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau.<n id="1" /> When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,<n id="2" />

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.p>

So Esau went to Ishmael and married<n id="1" /> Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham&#8217;s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.p>

<p class="bodytext"><v id="(32:1)" /><n id="1" /> Early in the morning Laban kissed<n id="2" /> his grandchildren<n id="3" /> and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.<n id="4" />p>

The man said, &#8220;They left this area,<n id="1" /> for I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8221; So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.p>

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.<n id="1" /> He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out<n id="2" /> for the place God had spoken to him about.p>

<p class="bodytext">Abraham looked up<n id="1" /> and saw<n id="2" /> behind him<n id="3" /> a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he<n id="4" /> went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.