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So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared."

Then Jacob raised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel, and the two slave women.

He raised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these with you?" So he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

"Please accept my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty." So he urged him, and he accepted it.

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young woman as a wife."

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob said nothing until they came in.

"So you will live with us, and the land shall be open to you; live and trade in it and acquire property in it."

"Demand of me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give whatever you tell me; but give me the girl in marriage."

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the people of their city, saying,

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Remove the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." So He called him Israel.

So Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

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

So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.

Then his brothers said to him, "Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.