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Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'

He said, "Your name will no longer be called 'Jacob,' but, 'Israel,' for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

He built an altar there, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.

God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.