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And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched, but did not find the household gods.

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

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

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

Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed."

Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.

But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.

So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "Why should my lord be so kind to me?"

But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth.

Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The heart of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone."

But they said, "Should our sister be treated like a whore?"

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he was called Israel.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What kind of dream is this that you have had? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, and bow to the ground before you?"

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.