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Israel would ponder the strange nighttime fight for the rest of his life, particularly whenever his limp prompted him. Ultimately he drew the conclusion that God Most High had sent a thrall to put him to the test even as his grandfather had been tested with an order to offer his father Yishak as a human sacrifice..

Esau continued in all the ways of a wanderer passed down from his grandfather Abraham to his father Yishak to himself. He traversed the land with his people, and his flocks greatly increased. But Israel tarried in the hill country between the river and the sea where few inhabitants dwelt at that particular time.

On a hilltop Israel built an altar unto God Most High, and he named that place Beit-El, or House of God. Israel and his servants built a courtyard around the altar, and ringed this open area with houses of mud brick laid on stone foundations. And the hillside was terraced for crops, and trees were planted bearing olives and fruits, but the animals were set to graze freely nearby.

Israel begat a daughter named Dinah, and he begat sons Levi, Judah, and Joseph. When they were of age Judah departed Beit-El and taking his inheritance of servants and animals he built the town of Hebron near the tomb of his grandfather.

And Joseph with his inheritance of servants beat down the tower of Rabbah, and the men of that fenced city came out before them, but God dicomfited them before Joseph with stones of ice from heaven and he slew more of the males of Rabbah than Joseph and his servants did with the edge of the word.

Judah son of Israel took to wife Mahlah daughter of Shuah the Canaanite and he begat a daughter, Shelomit. And Judah begat Perez, who took to wife Gaba daughter of Adullam the Gilohite. And Judah built the town of Eltekah after the manner of Beit-El.

And the servants of Israel who dwelt among them begat sons and daughters of their own, and they were free, and the same intermarried with the children of Israel, and they became one covenant people in the eyes of God.

Perez son of Judah took to wife Selomit daughter of begat a daughter, Atorah, and he begat Hezron, who took to wife Naamah daughter of Sheson the Anabite. The same Perez led the force that slew the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and killed of them a hundred men.