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Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols.

And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.

And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,

And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau,

And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.

And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.

Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob’s thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.