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But Laban replied, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you."

Now you have gone off because you long for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"

and also Mizpah, because he said, "May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from one another.

Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed."

The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon at the hip socket, because the man struck Jacob's hip socket near that tendon.

Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need. So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

When Jacob's sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter-a thing that should not be done.

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

The young man, who was the most respected of all his father's household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.

Jacob's other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him as he fled from his brother.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"

The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph's authority, because the LORD was with him and gave him success in whatever he did.

Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.