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So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord .

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.