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Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar,"

He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished." (That is why he was also called Edom.)

"Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," Esau replied.

"Look," said Isaac, "I am now old and do not know the day of my death.

Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

So Jacob went to his father and said, "My father." "Here I am!" he answered. "Which one are you, my son?"

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me."

Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."

But his father Isaac replied, "Who are you?" "I am Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?"

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well." So she named him Simeon.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?"

Leah said, "How happy I am, for the women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.

In that dream the Angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.'"

Rachel said to her father, "Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period." So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.