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knew that God had sent her to him for his young master, he gave them to
her, and worshipped the Lord who had led him to the house of his
master's brother.

Then Rebekah ran in and told Laban, her brother, and the old servant of
Abraham had a warm welcome at the door of Nahor's house.

"Come in, thou blessed of the Lord," they said.

And after they had cared for the camels and the men, there was a
hurrying of servants to prepare a feast, but the old man would not
taste food until he had given the message of his master. Then the
father and brother of Rebekah, saw that the Lord had sent for her, and
they said:

"Let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken."

And the old servant bowed his face to the ground worshipping the Lord
who had led him.

Then there was feasting and giving of costly gifts, and preparing to
take a long journey, for the old servant was in haste to get back to
his master, and Rebekah, who was willing to go, took her maid-servants
and rode away into a far country to be the wife of Isaac.

When Isaac was walking in his field at sunset, thinking and praying to
God, he looked up and saw that the camels were coming, and he hastened
to meet them. When the old servant told Rebekah that it was his young
master, she alighted from her camel, and covered herself with a long
veil as was the custom of the Syrian women. When the old servant had
told the story of his journey, he gave Rebekah to Isaac, and he took
her to the tent that had been his mother's, and she became his wife, so
that he was no longer lonely and sad.

Isaac lived to a very great age, and had two sons, Jacob and Esau. He
was a gentle, quiet man, fond of his family, his flocks, and herds, and
at the place where his father and mother were buried, he lived among
the fields and oak groves of Hebron until he died.

CHAPTER V.

JACOB, A PRINCE OF GOD.

Jacob and Esau were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah.

They did not look alike as twins often do, and they were very unlike in
all their ways. As they grew up, Esau loved the forests and 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 food. Jacob
helped his father with the flocks, and learned how to cook food from
his mother, who loved him more than she loved Esau.

One day Esau came home from hunting tired and hungry, and smelled the
delicious soup of red lentils that Jacob