Quotes About Heritage

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abrahamís son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

He told Rachel that he was Rebekahís son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

And Leahís servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ëGo back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,í