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Then he said, "Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God,

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

So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.

Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her."

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.

And Leah said, "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name Gad.

And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.

Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."