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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Abram, &#8220;Go from your country, your people and your father&#8217;s household to the land I will show you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make you into a great nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and I will bless you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">I will make your name great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and you will be a blessing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be seen as blessed</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will bless those who bless you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and whoever curses you I will curse;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and all peoples on earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">will be blessed through you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">earth / will use your name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Abram went, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abram and said, &#8220;To your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give this land.&#8221; So he built an altar there to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who had appeared to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Abraham&#8217;s son Isaac.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="content">Abraham became the father of Isaac, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">25:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and sister of Laban the Aramean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaac prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, &#8220;Why is this happening to me?&#8221; So she went to inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Two nations are in your womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and two peoples from within you will be separated;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">one people will be stronger than the other,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and the older will serve the younger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">25:25 </span><span class="fq">Esau </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fq">hairy</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau&#8217;s heel; so he was named Jacob.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">25:26 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel, </span><span class="ft">a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He said to Jacob, &#8220;Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I&#8217;m famished!&#8221; (That is why he was also called Edom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">25:30 </span><span class="fq">Edom </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">red</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob replied, &#8220;First sell me your birthright.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look, I am about to die,&#8221; Esau said. &#8220;What good is the birthright to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But Jacob said, &#8220;Swear to me first.&#8221; So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="content">So Esau despised his birthright.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, &#8220;My son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Isaac said, &#8220;I am now an old man and don&#8217;t know the day of my death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, get your equipment&#8212;your quiver and bow&#8212;and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Rebekah said to her son Jacob, &#8220;Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8216;Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> before I die.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, &#8220;But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His mother said to him, &#8220;My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He went to his father and said, &#8220;My father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;Who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How did you find it so quickly, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave me success,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Isaac said to Jacob, &#8220;Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, &#8220;The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you really my son Esau?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="content">Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then his father Isaac said to him, &#8220;Come here, my son, and kiss me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Ah, the smell of my son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">is like the smell of a field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">May God give you heaven&#8217;s dew</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">and earth&#8217;s richness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">an abundance of grain and new wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May nations serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and peoples bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">Be lord over your brothers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">May those who curse you be cursed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and those who bless you be blessed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father&#8217;s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, &#8220;My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">His father Isaac asked him, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your son,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;your firstborn, Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Isaac trembled violently and said, &#8220;Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him&#8212;and indeed he will be blessed!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Esau heard his father&#8217;s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, &#8220;Bless me&#8212;me too, my father!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Esau said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t he rightly named Jacob</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">27:36 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel</span><span class="ft">, a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fq">he takes advantage of </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content">? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he&#8217;s taken my blessing!&#8221; Then he asked, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you reserved any blessing for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Isaac answered Esau, &#8220;I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Esau said to his father, &#8220;Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!&#8221; Then Esau wept aloud.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">His father Isaac answered him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the earth&#8217;s richness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the dew of heaven above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">You will live by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">and you will serve your brother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">But when you grow restless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">you will throw his yoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">from off your neck.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, &#8220;The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.27.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, &#8220;Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.27.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.27.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Stay with him for a while until your brother&#8217;s fury subsides. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I&#8217;ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.27.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Let me go, for it is daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="content">But Jacob replied, &#8220;I will not let you go unless you bless me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The man asked him, &#8220;What is your name?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Jacob,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">32:28 </span><span class="fq">Israel </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">he struggles with God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said, &#8220;Please tell me your name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;Why do you ask my name?&#8221; Then he blessed him there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So Jacob called the place Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">32:30 </span><span class="fq">Peniel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">face of God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">32:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he was limping because of his hip. </span></span></div>
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