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And they said, "We will call the young woman and ask her."

Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham's servant and his men.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them."

Then Rebekah got up with her female attendants, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

Now the first came out 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.

Then 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 have seen plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, 'An oath must now be taken by us,' that is, by you and us. So let us make a covenant with you,

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

In the morning they got up early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away, and they left 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, because they watered the flocks from that well. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would 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."

So 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 his daughter Rachel 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 like only a few days because of his love for her.