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and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife, besides the wives that he had.

And he reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and lay down in that place.

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it."

So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

Then Jacob took up his journey and came to the land of the sons of the east.

And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."

Now it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and gave water to the flock of Laban his mother's brother to drink.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted his voice and wept.

So it happened that when Laban heard the report of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he recounted to Laban all these things.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his sight but a few days because of his love for her.

Now it happened in the evening that he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her.

Laban also gave his servant-woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a servant-woman.

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

Laban also gave his servant-woman Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her servant-woman.

And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.

And Jacob separated the lambs, and he made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he set his own herds apart and did not set them with Laban's flock.

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

Then Jacob arose and put his children and his wives upon camels;

and he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had accumulated, his acquired livestock which he had accumulated in Paddan-aram, in order to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.