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And He said, "Let Me go, for the day breaks." But he said, "I will not let You go unless You bless me!"

And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; [fn] for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed."

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

But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die.

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

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife."

But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised,

But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone."

But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a harlot?"

And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name." So He called his name Israel.

Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; [fn] but his father called him Benjamin. [fn]

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him."

And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, "For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning." Thus his father wept for him.