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She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Shim`on.

She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

Le'ah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Yissakhar.

Le'ah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zevulun.

Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

Ya`akov answered Lavan, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

The sun rose on him as he passed over Peni'el, and he limped because of his thigh.

Therefore the children of Yisra'el don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Ya`akov said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

The sons of Ya`akov came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Yisra'el in lying with Ya`akov's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

The sons of Ya`akov answered Shekhem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya`akov's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

Ya`akov's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

He built an altar there, and called the place El-Beit-El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle.

Now Yisra'el loved Yosef more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

Yehudah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelach, my son." He knew her again no more.

He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"