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

And Jacob said to his relatives, "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 dread of his father Isaac.

Then 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 took 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.

And he saw that he had not prevailed against him, so he touched the socket of his thigh; and 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 delivered."

Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women.

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.

Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife."

So the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more honored than all the household of his father.

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 which are among you and cleanse yourselves and change your garments;

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

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.