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Then the man said, "Let Me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let You go unless You bless me."

Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed."

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

But Jacob insisted, "No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.

But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

"Let me leave some of my people with you," Esau said. But Jacob replied, "Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he held his peace until they returned.

But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go."

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

But Simeon and Levi answered, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"

And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be called Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So God named him Israel.

And with her last breath-for she was dying-she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

"Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said. "I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.