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But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."

So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

But he said, "Your brother came with guile, and he has taken away your blessing."

Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck."

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you.

He called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.

When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you;

For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"

But that day Laban removed the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;

but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.

yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.