e the twin sons of

wild places. He made bows and arrows, and was a hunter, and brought home wild birds and deer, for his father was very fond of such

ntils that Jacob was making. He begged Jacob to give him some, and Jacob, who wanted to be eld

him all his rights as the first born, for a lit

great promise that God had given

ked him to go out into the fields and shoot a deer, and cook the venison th

oked and served as venison. Then she dressed Jacob in the clothes of Esau,

but he put his hands on him, and be

d brought venison to h

, thy first-born, Esau," the old man trembled, an

Hast thou but one blessing?" "Ble

would grow to be a good man, and love the things of God best, and that Esau would always love the things of

blessi

d his brother, and s

into Syria to the house of Laban, where Rebekah had lived, and

, on a hillside that looked toward his home, and he dreamed a wonderful dream. He saw a ladd

he promise that He had first given to Abraham, and told him th

d God's voice. He made an altar of the pillow of stone, and called it Bethel-th

give me, I will surely

sheep lying by it, waiting for all the flocks to gather in the cool of the day to be watered. Soon Rachel, the

of Laban, his mother's brother. Then he kissed Rachel, and tol

d after he had stayed a month with them Laban asked him to stay

seven years seemed to Jacob but a few days, for the love he had to Rachel. But, according to the custom of that country, the younger daughter could not be given in marriage before the elder, and so Laban gave his daughter Leah also, and both Leah and Rachel became th

God had sent him, and his flocks and herds, and started on a journey to his old home. Isaac was still alive, and Jacob longed to see him

he was strengthened. Still he feared Esau, and sent s

at Esau, with four hundred m

, when he had stolen the blessing from Esau, a

and little ones in the safest place, he sent all that he had over the brook Jabbok, and he stayed on the other side to p

thee go except

Israel; "for as a prince," he said, "hast thou p

, in the form of a man, had been with

au and his men coming, and when he had told his family to follow him, he

his home with the presents Jacob had given him, and Jacob went on his way into Canaan full of joy and thankfulness. He stopped a little while in a pleasant place to rest his flocks and cattle

of Jacob

ob at Beth-el, and called h

rward the Lord Jesus was born, and there another little son was born to Rachel, and

and

of Jacob's twelve sons, who became the fathers of the tw

by the brooks in the green valleys, that the cattle might rest and find pasture, but at last the long caravan came slowly over the

he two brothers laid their father in the cave that Abraham bought when Sarah died,