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And Isaac loved Esau because he could eat of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say ‘She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her."

Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then Isaac said to his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God caused me to find it."

And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the native women, what am I living for?"

And he arrived at a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and slept at that place.

Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be."

And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.

Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me."

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.

But Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you."

Are we not regarded as foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?

Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, but why did you steal my gods?"

Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought, ‘Lest you take your daughters from me by force.'

and Mizpah, because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.

Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Therefore the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that is upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve.