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Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born. As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open fields, while Jacob was the kind of person who liked to stay at home.

Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These twelve sons of Ishmael became the founders of twelve tribes that bore their names, listed according to the places they settled and camped. Ishmael finally died at the age of and joined his ancestors in death. Ishmael's descendants were scattered across the country from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur.

The clans descended from Ishmael camped close to one another. This is the history of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham.

Isaac loved Esau in particular because of the wild game he brought home, but Rebekah favored Jacob. One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home exhausted and hungry from a hunt. Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved!

Give me some of that red stew you've made. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank and went on about his business, indifferent to the fact that he had given up his birthright. Do as I say, and stay here in this land. If you do, I will be with you and bless you. I will give all this land to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father. I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands.

And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed. I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, regulations, and laws. And when the men there asked him about Rebekah, he said, "She is my sister. He thought they would kill him to get her, because she was very beautiful. But some time later, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah.

Abimelech called for Isaac and exclaimed, "She is obviously your wife! Why did you say she was your sister? So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.

Then Abimelech made a public proclamation: "Anyone who harms this man or his wife will die! He harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him. He became a rich man, and his wealth only continued to grow.

He acquired large flocks of sheep and goats, great herds of cattle, and many servants. Soon the Philistines became jealous of him, and they filled up all of Isaac's wells with earth. These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father, Abraham. And Abimelech asked Isaac to leave the country. He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled in after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed them, using the names Abraham had given them. His shepherds also dug in the Gerar Valley and found a gushing spring.

But then the local shepherds came and claimed the spring. So Isaac 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 Isaac's men then dug another well, but again there was a fight over it. So Isaac named it "Opposition. I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant. He set up his camp at that place, and his servants dug a well.

One day Isaac had visitors from Gerar. King Abimelech arrived with his adviser, Ahuzzath, and also Phicol, his army commander. So we decided 28 27 26 Swear that you will not harm us, just as we did not harm you.

We have always treated you well, and we sent you away from us in peace. And now look how the LORD has blessed you! Early the next morning, they each took a solemn oath of nonaggression. Then Isaac sent them home again in peace. That very day Isaac's servants came and told him about a well they had dug. So Isaac named the well "Oath," and from that time to this, the town that grew up there has been called Beersheba-"well of the oath. He also married Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

But Esau's wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah. Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows out into the open country, and hunt some wild game for me. Prepare it just the way I like it so it's savory and good, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I die. So when Esau left to hunt for the wild game, she said to her son Jacob, "I overheard your father asking Esau to prepare him a delicious meal of wild game.

Go out to the flocks and bring me two fine young goats. I'll prepare your father's favorite dish from them. Take the food to your father; then he can eat it and bless you instead of Esau before he dies. Think how hairy Esau is and how smooth my skin is! What if my father touches me? He'll see that I'm trying to trick him, and then he'll curse me instead of blessing me. Go out and get the goats.

So Jacob followed his mother's instructions, bringing her the two goats. She took them and cooked a delicious meat dish, just the way Isaac liked it. Then she took Esau's best clothes, which were there in the house, and dressed Jacob with them. She made him a pair of gloves from the hairy skin of the young goats, and she fastened a strip of the goat's skin around his neck.

Then she gave him the meat dish, with its rich aroma, and some freshly baked bread. Jacob carried the platter of food to his father and said, "My father? I've done as you told me. Here is the wild game, cooked the way you like it. Sit up and eat it so you can give me your blessing. Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come over here. I want to touch you to make sure you really are Esau. But he did not recognize Jacob because Jacob's hands felt hairy just like Esau's.

So Isaac pronounced his blessing on Jacob. Then Isaac said, "Now, my son, bring me the meat. I will eat it, and then I will give you my blessing. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him. Then Isaac said, 26 25 So Jacob went over and kissed him.

And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. May God always give you plenty of dew for healthy crops and good harvests of grain and wine. May many nations become your servants. May you be the master of your brothers.

May all your mother's sons bow low before you. All who curse you are cursed, and all who bless you are blessed. Esau prepared his father's favorite meat dish and brought it to him. Then he said, "I'm back, Father, and I have the 31 30 29 I have already eaten it, and I blessed him with an irrevocable blessing before you came. But Isaac said, "Your brother was here, and he tricked me. He has carried away your blessing.

Oh, haven't you saved even one blessing for me? I have guaranteed him an abundance of grain and wine--what is there left to give?

O my father, bless me, too! His father, Isaac, said to him, "You will live off the land and what it yields, and you will live by your sword. You will serve your brother for a time, but 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 Then I will kill Jacob. She sent for Jacob and told him, "Esau is threatening to kill you. This is what you should do. Flee to your uncle Laban in Haran. Stay there with him until your brother's fury is spent.

When he forgets what you have done, I will send for you. Why should I lose both of you in one day? I'd rather die than see Jacob marry one of them. So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, "Do not marry any of these Canaanite women. Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban's daughters. May God Almighty bless you and give you many children.

And may your descendants become a great assembly of nations! May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where we now are foreigners, for God gave it to Abraham. Esau heard that his father had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.

He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram. It was now very clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women. So he visited his uncle Ishmael's family and married one of Ishmael's daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife's name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son. Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.

At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone for a pillow and lay down to sleep. As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from earth to heaven.

And he saw the angels of God going up and down on it. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth!

They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

What's more, I will be with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. I will someday bring you safely back to this land. I will be with you constantly until I have finished giving you everything I have promised. It is none other than the house of God--the gateway to heaven! He took the stone he had used as a pillow and set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it.

He named the place Bethel--"house of God"--though the name of the nearby village was Luz. Then Jacob made this vow: "If God will be with me and protect me on this journey and give me food and clothing, 20 19 18 17 16 15 This memorial pillar will become a place for worshiping God, and I will give God a tenth of everything he gives me. As this conversation was going on, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.

And because she was his cousin, the daughter of his mother's brother, and because the sheep were his uncle's, Jacob went over to the well and rolled away the stone and watered his uncle's flock. Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and tears came to his eyes. He explained that he was her cousin on her father's side, her aunt Rebekah's son.

So Rachel quickly ran and told her father, Laban. As soon as Laban heard about Jacob's arrival, he rushed out to meet him and greeted him warmly. Laban then brought him home, and Jacob told him his story. After Jacob had been there about a month, Laban said to him, "You shouldn't work for me without pay just because we are relatives. How much do you want? Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in every way, with a lovely face and shapely figure.

Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, "I'll work for you 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 He saw in the distance three flocks of sheep lying in an open field beside a well, waiting to be watered. But a heavy stone covered the mouth of the well. It was the custom there to wait for all the flocks to arrive before removing the stone.

After watering them, the stone would be rolled back over the mouth of the well. Jacob went over to the shepherds and asked them, "Where do you live? Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

Finally, the time came for him to marry her. That night, when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her. And Laban gave Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid. But when Jacob woke up in the morning--it was Leah! What do you mean by this trickery?

So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too. And Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.

So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her more than Leah. He then stayed and worked the additional seven years. So Leah became pregnant and had a son. She named him Levi, for she said, "Surely now my husband will feel affection for me, since I have given him three sons!

Jacob flew into a rage. Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son. Rachel named him Dan, for she said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son. Rachel named him Naphtali, for she said, "I have had an intense struggle with my sister, and I am winning!

Soon Zilpah another son. One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought the roots to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah to give some of them to her. But Leah angrily replied, "Wasn't it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son's mandrake roots, too? And God answered her prayers. She became pregnant again and gave birth to her fifth son.

She named him Issachar, for she said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife. She named him Zebulun, for she said, "God has given me good gifts for my husband. Now he will honor me, for I have given him six sons. Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by giving her a child. The other women will consider me happy indeed!

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them from you, and let me be on my way. You know I have fully paid for them with my service to you. How much do I owe you? Whatever it is, I'll pay it. You had little indeed before I came, and your wealth has increased enormously. But now, what about me? When should I provide for my own family? Jacob replied, "Don't give me anything at all. Just do one thing, and I'll go back to work for you.

Let me go out among your flocks today and remove all the sheep and goats that are speckled or spotted, along with all the dark-colored sheep. Give them to me as my wages. This will make it easy for you to see whether or not I have been honest. If you find in my flock any white sheep or goats that are not speckled, you will know that I have stolen them from you. He placed them in the care of his sons, and they took them three days' distance from where Jacob was.

Meanwhile, Jacob stayed and cared for Laban's flock. Now Jacob took fresh shoots from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled off strips of the bark to make white streaks on them. Then he set up these peeled branches beside the watering troughs so Laban's flocks would see them as they came to drink, for that was when they mated. So when the flocks mated in front of the white-streaked branches, all of their offspring were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Jacob added them to his own flock, thus separating the lambs from Laban's flock. Then at mating time, he turned the flocks toward the streaked and darkcolored rams in Laban's flock. This is how he built his flock from Laban's.

Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob set up the peeled branches in front of them. But he didn't do this with the weaker ones, so the weaker lambs belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones were Jacob's. As a result, Jacob's flocks increased rapidly, and he became very wealthy, with many servants, camels, and donkeys.

You know how hard I have worked for your father, but he has tricked me, breaking his wage agreement with me again and again. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm. For if he said the speckled animals were mine, the whole flock began to produce speckled lambs. And when he changed his mind and said I could have the streaked ones, then all the lambs were born streaked.

In this way, God has made me wealthy at your father's expense. During the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted. Then in my dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob! For I have seen all that Laban has done to you. I am the God you met at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made a vow to serve me. Now leave this country and return to the land you came from.

Jacob soon learned that Laban's sons were beginning to grumble. Rachel and Leah said, "That's fine with us! There's nothing for us here--none of our father's wealth will come to us anyway. He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. He sold us, and what he received for us has disappeared.

The riches God has given you from our father are legally ours and our children's to begin with. So go ahead and do whatever God has told you. He drove the flocks in front of him--all the livestock he had acquired at Paddan-aram--and set out on his journey to the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived. At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father's household gods and took them with her.

They set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving. Jacob took all his possessions with him and crossed the Euphrates River, heading for the territory of Gilead.

Laban didn't learn of their flight for three days. But when he did, he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with them seven days later in the hill country of Gilead. But the previous night God had appeared to Laban in a dream.

So when Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, he set up his camp not far from Jacob's. Why did you slip away secretly?

I would have given you a farewell party, with joyful singing accompanied by tambourines and harps. Why didn't you let me kiss my daughters and grandchildren and tell them good-bye?

You have acted very foolishly! I could destroy you, but the God of your father appeared to me last night and told me, 'Be careful about what you say to Jacob! If you find anything that belongs to you, I 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 Laban went first into Jacob's tent to search there, then into Leah's, and then he searched the tents of the two concubines, but he didn't find the gods. Finally, he went into Rachel's tent. Rachel had taken the household gods and had stuffed them into her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them.

So although Laban searched all the tents, he couldn't find them. Then Jacob became very angry. You have chased me as though I were a criminal. You have searched through everything I own. Now show me what you have found that belongs to you! Set it out here in front of us, before our relatives, for all to see. Let them decide who is the real owner! In all those years I never touched a single ram of yours for food.

If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, did I show them to you and ask you to reduce the count of your flock? No, I took the loss! You made me pay for every animal stolen from the flocks, whether the loss was my fault or not. I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.

Yes, twenty years--fourteen of them earning your two daughters, and six years to get the flock. And you have reduced my wages ten times! In fact, except for the grace of God-the God of my grandfather Abraham, the awe-inspiring God of my father, Isaac-you would have sent me off without a penny to my name.

But God has seen your cruelty and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and vindicated me. But what can I do now to my own daughters and grandchildren? Come now, and we will make a peace treaty, you and I, and we will live by its terms.

He also told his men to gather stones and pile them up in a heap. Jacob and Laban then sat down beside the pile of stones to share a meal. This place was also called Mizpah, for Laban said, "May the LORD keep watch between us to make sure that we keep this treaty when we are out of each other's sight.

I won't know about it if you are harsh to my daughters or if you take other wives, but God will see it. As Jacob and his household started on their way again, angels of God came to meet him.

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is God's camp! Jacob now sent messengers to his brother, Esau, in Edom, the land of Seir. He told them, "Give this message to my master Esau: 'Humble greetings from your servant Jacob! I have been living with Uncle Laban until recently, and now I own oxen, donkeys, sheep, goats, and many servants, both men and women.

I have sent these messengers to inform you of my coming, hoping that you will be friendly to us. Jacob was terrified at the news. He divided his household, along with the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps. He thought, "If Esau attacks one group, perhaps the other can escape. I will not cross this line to harm you, and you will not cross it to harm me. I call on the God of our ancestors--the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of my grandfather Nahor--to punish either one of us who harms the other.

Then Jacob presented a sacrifice to God and invited everyone to a feast. Afterward they spent the night there in the hills. Laban got up early the next morning, and he kissed his daughters and grandchildren and blessed them. Then he returned home.

I am not worthy of all the faithfulness and unfailing love you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home, I owned nothing except a walking stick, and now my household fills two camps! I am afraid that he is coming to kill me, along with my wives and children. But you promised to treat me kindly and to multiply my descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count.

He told his servants to lead them on ahead, each group of animals by itself, separated by a distance in between. He gave these instructions to the men leading the first group: "When you meet Esau, he will ask, 'Where are you going? Whose servants are you? Whose animals are these? They are a present for his master Esau!

He is coming right behind us. Jacob gave the same instructions to each of the herdsmen and told them, "You are all to say the same thing to Esau when you see him. And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is right behind us. But during the night Jacob got up and sent his two wives, two concubines, and eleven sons across the Jabbok River. After they were on the other side, he sent over all his possessions. This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until dawn.

When the man saw that he couldn't win the match, he struck Jacob's hip and knocked it out of joint at the socket. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is dawn. He replied, "Jacob. Then he blessed Jacob there. Jacob named the place Peniel--"face of God"--for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared. That is why even today the people of Israel don't eat meat from near the hip, in memory of what happened that night.

Next Leah came with her children, and they bowed down. Finally, Rachel and Joseph came and made their bows. Jacob replied, "They are gifts, my lord, to ensure your goodwill. It is like seeing the smile of God! Please take my gifts, for God has been very generous to me. I have more than enough. If they are driven too hard, they may die. So go on ahead of us.

We will follow at our own pace and meet you at Seir. So Esau started back to Seir that same day. Meanwhile, Jacob and his household traveled on to Succoth. There he built 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8. Jacob now arranged his family into a column, with his two concubines and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Then Jacob went on ahead. As he approached his brother, he bowed low seven times before him. Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him affectionately and kissed him. Both of them were in tears. Then Esau looked at the women and children and asked, "Who are these people with you? Then the concubines came forward with their children and bowed low before him.

That is why the place was named Succoth. Then they arrived safely at Shechem, in Canaan, and they set up camp just outside the town. Jacob bought the land he camped on from the family of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. And there he built an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob's family, a thing that should never have been done. Hamor told Jacob and his sons, "My son Shechem is truly in love with your daughter, and he longs for her to be his wife. Please let him marry her. We invite you to let your daughters marry our sons, and we will give our daughters as wives for your young men.