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She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah's son, whom she bore to Nahor."

So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the young unmarried woman who comes out to draw water, and to whom I say, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar";

But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why am I in this condition?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

and Esau said to Jacob, "Please let me have a mouthful of that red stuff there, for I am exhausted." Therefore he was called Edom by name.

Esau said, "Look, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?"

And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham."

Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I am."

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

But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

Then he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

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

And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."

His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

Then behold, the LORD was standing above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants.

"Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

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

Now when Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am going to die."

Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"