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So Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my people with you." "No, thank you," said Jacob. "I only want to please you, my master."

So that day Esau started back to Edom.

He told his father, Hamor, "Please get this girl for me so I can marry her."

So Shechem quickly went to be circumcised because he loved Jacob's daughter. Now Shechem was the most respected man in his family.

So Hamor and Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

"These people want to be friends with us. So let them live in our land and trade here. There is enough land for all of us. Let us marry their women, and we can let them marry our women.

So the brothers took the flocks, herds, and donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and the earrings they were wearing, and he hid them under the great tree near the town of Shechem.

Then Jacob and his sons left there. But God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid, so they did not follow them.

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak tree at Bethel, so they named that place Oak of Crying.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. Your new name will be Israel." So he called him Israel.

So Isaac breathed his last breath and died when he was very old, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

So Esau lived in the mountains of Edom. (Esau is also named Edom.)

His father said, "Go and see if your brothers and the flocks are all right. Then come back and tell me." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph came to Shechem,

The man said, "They have already gone. I heard them say they were going to Dothan." So Joseph went to look for his brothers and found them in Dothan.

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his robe with long sleeves

So when the Midianite traders came by, the brothers took Joseph out of the well and sold him to the Ishmaelites for eight ounces of silver. And the Ishmaelites took him to Egypt.

All of his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he could not be comforted. He said, "I will be sad about my son until the day I die." So Jacob cried for his son Joseph.

But Er, Judah's oldest son, did what the Lord said was evil, so the Lord killed him.