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But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and the flocks and the cattle which are nursing are a concern to me. Now if they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.

And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."

But Jacob traveled on to Succoth, and he built for himself a house, and he made shelters for his livestock. Therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.

And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came.

Make the bride price and gift as high as you like; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."

But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go."

But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Then his name was called Israel.

And it happened that when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him"—so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father.

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed.

And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste it on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother.

So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered herself with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which is on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife.

And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her.

And Judah said, "Let her take them for herself, lest we be laughed at. Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her."

She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these belong I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern to whom these belong: the seal and cord and the staff."

But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not worry about what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand.