¹² He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”^(A)

²¹ Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.^(A)

² Go at once to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.^(A)

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

⁷ yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.^(A)