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Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period." So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

If the God of my father—the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears—had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night."

Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

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

I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you."

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

But Jacob traveled to Succoth where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called Succoth.

But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."

But Simeon and Levi replied, "Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?"

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name." So God named him Israel.

With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.