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Rivka heard when Yitzchak spoke to Esav his son. Esav went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

He said, "Isn't he rightly named Ya`akov? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

Yitzchak answered Esav, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

Esav hated Ya`akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esav said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya`akov."

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

Ya`akov rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.

While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

Lavan said to Ya`akov, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Ya`akov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

Lavan gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Le'ah for a handmaid.

It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to Lavan, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re'uven. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."