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Now therefore swear to me by God that thou wilt not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with thee thou shalt deal with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.

And Abimelech said to him, I know not who has done this thing to thee, neither didst thou tell it me, neither heard I it but only to-day.

but hear us; thou art in the midst of us a king from God; bury thy dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from thee, so that thou shouldest not bury thy dead there.

But Ephron answered Abraam, saying,

Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

But thou shalt go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son Isaac.

And he set before them loaves to eat; but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

But thou shalt go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

But he said to them, Hinder me not, for the Lord has prospered my journey for me; send me away, that I may depart to my master.

But Abraam gave all his possessions to Isaac his son.

But to the sons of his concubines Abraam gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east.

And Isaac loved Esau, because his venison was his food, but Rebecca loved Jacob.

And the Lord appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt, but dwell in the land, which I shall tell thee of.

And Jacob drew night to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob�s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.

And the eyes of Lea were weak. But Rachel was beautiful in appearance, and exceedingly fair in countenance.

And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

But he did not put them in indiscriminately whenever the cattle happened to bring forth, but the unmarked ones were Laban�s, and the marked ones were Jacob�s.

And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.