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Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.

He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, "At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."

He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him."

And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."

But they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.

"Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.