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And said to them, I see that your fathers countenance toward me is not as it has been yesterday and the day before; but the God of my father has been with me.

And yet your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God has not permitted him to hurt me.

Thus God has selected some of your fathers cattle, and given them to me.

And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, Here am I.

I am the God of Beth-el, the place where you anointed a pillar to me, and where you vowed a vow to me; now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your kindred.

For all the riches which God has selected from our father belong to us and our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.

And God came to Laban, the Aramean, in a dream by night, and said to him, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

I could have done you harm, but the God of your fathers said to me last evening, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

And if it had not been for the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and your regard for Isaac, which have been on my side, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God saw my toil and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last evening.

If you despise my daughters, or if you shall take other wives besides my daughters, now no man is with us; see, God only is witness between me and you.

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor and the God of our forefathers judge between us. And Jacob swore by the reverence of his father Isaac.

AND Jacob also went on his journey, and the angels of God met him.

And Jacob prayed, and said. O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who didst say to me, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you;

And he said to him. Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel (the Prince of God); for you have proved your strength wrestling with an angel and with man, and have prevailed.

Then Esau raised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Where did you get these? And Jacob said to him, They are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.

Now accept my blessings that I have brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And Jacob urged him, and he did accept them.

And he pitched his tent there, and erected an altar, and called it El-Alaha di Israel (God, the God of Israel).

AND God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and build there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of your brother Esau.

And let us arise and go up to Beth-el; and I will build there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the journey that I took.

And they journeyed; and the fear of God fell upon the towns that were round about them, and they did not pursue after Jacob and his sons.