When Laban heard of the arrival of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he told Laban all these things.
JACOB IN LABAN’S HOME
JACOB IN LABAN’S HOME
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JACOB SENT AWAY FROM HOME
JACOB SENT AWAY FROM HOME
Jacob Sent Away From Home. So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.
Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take from there as a wife for yourself one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother
ESAU’S GRIEF AND ANGER
ESAU’S GRIEF AND ANGER
So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
JACOB GETS ESAU’S BLESSING
JACOB GETS ESAU’S BLESSING
So he went to his father and said, “My father.” And Isaac said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now please, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
ISAAC’S WELLS AND COVENANT
ISAAC’S WELLS AND COVENANT
The Philistines had stopped up the wells which Abraham had dug—an unfriendly act signifying that the newcomers were not welcome. Strife ensued with the Philistines at Esek (contention) and Sitnah (enmity).
GOD’S PROMISE TO ISAAC
GOD’S PROMISE TO ISAAC
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB
THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB
The Birth of Esau and Jacob. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
REBEKAH MARRIES ISAAC AND BECAME HIS WIFE
REBEKAH MARRIES ISAAC AND BECAME HIS WIFE
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
ABRAHAM’S SERVANT FULFILLS HIS MISSION
ABRAHAM’S SERVANT FULFILLS HIS MISSION
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
REBEKAH MEETS ABRAHAM’S SERVANT
REBEKAH MEETS ABRAHAM’S SERVANT
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.