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Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need. So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

So Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as a wife."

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be called Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So God named him Israel.

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken to him-a stone marker-and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

Then Israel told him, "Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me." So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,

"They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

"Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe-the robe of many colors he was wearing-

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.