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So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore [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 to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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 is] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire 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 to him, My son: and he said to him, Behold, [here am] I.

And Isaac said to 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 first-born.

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel, his daughter, for a 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 accounted 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 arose, and passed over the river, and set his face [towards] 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 chid with Laban: and Jacob answered, and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my sin, that thou hast so eagerly pursued after me?

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

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

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.