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I am standing by this spring. I will wait for a young woman to come out to get water, and I will say, "Please give me water from your jar to drink."

So Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red soup, because I am weak with hunger." (That is why people call him Edom.)

Esau said, "I am almost dead from hunger. If I die, all of my father's wealth will not help me."

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my servant Abraham."

When Isaac was old, his eyesight was poor, so he could not see clearly. One day he called his older son Esau to him and said, "Son." Esau answered, "Here I am."

Isaac said, "I am old and don't know when I might die.

But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth!

If my father touches me, he will know I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me but will place a curse on me because I tried to trick him."

Jacob said to him, "I am Esau, your first son. I have done what you told me. Now sit up and eat some meat of the animal I hunted for you. Then bless me."

Isaac asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" Jacob answered, "Yes, I am."

Isaac asked, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son—your firstborn son—Esau."

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of these Hittite women here in this land, I want to die."

Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping.

I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She named him Simeon and said, "The Lord has heard that I am not loved, so he has given me this son."

Leah said, "I am lucky," so she named him Gad.

and Leah said, "I am very happy! Now women will call me happy," so she named him Asher.

In the future you can easily see if I am honest. When you come to look at my flocks, if I have any goat that isn't speckled or spotted or any lamb that isn't black, you will know I stole it."

I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured olive oil on the stone you set up on end and where you made a promise to me. Now I want you to leave here and go back to the land where you were born.'"

Rachel said to her father, "Father, don't be angry with me. I am not able to stand up before you because I am having my monthly period." So Laban looked through the camp, but he did not find his idols.