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And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had sent him away to Padan-aram to take a wife for himself from there. In his blessing he had commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Padan-aram.

And when Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of his father Isaac,

then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, Nebajoth's sister. To his wives he added her for his wife.

And he came on a place and stayed the night there, for the sun had gone. And he took stones of the place and placed them at his head; and he lay down in that place.

And Jacob awakened from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know.

And Jacob started up early in the morning and took the stone which he had placed at his head, and he placed it as a pillar; and he poured oil on the top of it.

And Jacob lifted his feet and went to the land of the sons of the east.

And he said to them, Well-being to him? And they said, Well-being. And, behold, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.

And it happened when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, brother to his mother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother'sbrother.

And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept.

And it happened when Laban heard the report of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him. And he took him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes like a few days, in his love for her.

And it happened in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and he went in to her.

And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his slave-girl, to his daughter Leah as a slave.

And Jacob did so, and he fulfilled the week of this one, and he gave to him his daughter Rachel, to him for a wife.

And Laban gave his slave-girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel, to her for a slave-girl.

And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked on my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Surely Jehovah has heard that I am hated and has given this one to me also. And she called his name Simeon.