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So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.

And Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me."

Then Isaac said to his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God caused me to find it."

Then he said, "Bring it near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.

Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

So Laban gathered all the men of the place and prepared a feast.

And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this one, then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife.

Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"

And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted.

But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flocks,

For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do."

Why did you hide your intention to flee and trick me, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?

So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you."

Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that were with him into two companies.

So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.

Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." And he urged him, so he took it.

So Esau turned that day on his way to Seir.