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And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.

And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.