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And he said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and will make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my family and from my father's house.

and she will say to me, "You drink, and I will draw for your camels also"; she is the woman whom Yahweh has decided upon for my master's son.'

And I bowed low and worshiped Yahweh; and I blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the true way to take the daughter of my master's relative for his son.

Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the land of the Negev.

Isaac loved Esau because he had an appetite for hunted game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Then Esau said to Jacob, "Please give me a swallow from the red stuff—this red stuff, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

Then the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance."

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are too mighty for us."

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

And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said,"I am the God of your father Abraham;Do not fear, for I am with you.I will bless you and multiply your seed,For the sake of My servant Abraham."

So now, please take up your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die."

Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Then Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring to Isaac.

‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat and bless you in the presence of Yahweh before my death.'

Go now to the flock and get for me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me."

Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

But Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him your master, and all his fellow brothers I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?"

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."