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Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.

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

But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be that when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, "Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you.

Now the eyes of Leah were dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

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

When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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."

But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and put them in the charge of his sons.

But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that it is not like it has been toward me in the past. But the God of my father is with me.

and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.

It is in my power to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, ‘Take care from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'

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

But with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen now identify what is with me that is yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.

And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.

Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."