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but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,

So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

"Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;

So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.

She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.

"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."

"So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."

Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

"The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

Jacob said when he saw them, "This is God's camp." So he named that place Mahanaim.

So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

Then Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

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

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.