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

Although you have felt about through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsfolk and your kinsfolk, so that they may decide between us two.

So Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar.

May 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,

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

So he spent that night there, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,

So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself spent that night in the camp.

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

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want." So he urged him, and he took it.

So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "Why should my lord be so kind to me?"

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl to be my wife."

Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes;

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.

As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them.

And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.