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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14643 ***</div>
+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Farmer Boy; the Story of Jacob, by J. H.
+Willard</h1>
+
+<hr noshade>
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<CENTER>
+<a href="images/imgfp.jpg">
+<IMG SRC="images/imgfp.jpg" ALT="Frontispiece" BORDER="2" WIDTH="60%"></a>
+<H5>
+[Frontispiece]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+ALTEMUS' CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE SERIES
+</H3>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H1 ALIGN="center">
+THE FARMER BOY
+</H1>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+THE STORY OF JACOB
+</H2>
+
+<H4 ALIGN="center">
+BY
+</H4>
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+J. H. WILLARD
+</H2>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+ILLUSTRATED
+</H3>
+
+<BR><BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H6 ALIGN="center">
+Philadelphia<br>
+Henry Altemus Company
+</H6>
+<center>
+<h4>1905</h4>
+</center>
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H3>
+Altemus' Illustrated Children of the Bible Series
+</H3>
+
+<P CLASS="noindent" ALIGN="left">
+The Boy who Obeyed:  The Story of Isaac<BR>
+The Farmer Boy:   The Story of Jacob<BR>
+The Favorite Son:  The Story of Joseph<BR>
+The Adopted Son:  The Story of Moses<BR>
+The Boy General:  The Story of Joshua<BR>
+The Boy at School:  The Story of Samuel<BR>
+The Shepherd Boy:  The Story of David<BR>
+The Boy who would be King:  The Story of Absalom<BR>
+The Captive Boy:  The Story of Daniel<BR>
+The Boy Jesus<BR>
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img005a.jpg" ALT="Untitled" BORDER="2" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="240">
+</CENTER>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+THE FARMER BOY
+</H2>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+THE STORY OF JACOB
+</H3>
+
+<P>
+Abraham, the father of the great Israelitish, or Hebrew, nation, was
+the chief, or sheikh, as he would be called now, of his family or
+tribe, and with his flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, camels and other
+animals, servants and followers, moved from place to place, adding to
+his wealth as time went on and making for himself a respected name
+wherever he went.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+God chose Abraham to be the founder of this mighty nation, and at his
+death promised a continuation of His favor to his son Isaac, who had
+married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, who was Abraham's nephew.
+Isaac was an only son and inherited his father's great wealth.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img007a.jpg" ALT="Abraham, the founder of a nation" BORDER="2" WIDTH="280" HEIGHT="460">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Abraham, the Founder of a Nation.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons whose names were Esau and Jacob, and
+perhaps no brothers were ever more unlike in their dispositions.  Esau
+grew up to be a hunter.  Nothing pleased him so much as to take his bow
+and arrows and spend days away from home in the pursuit of deer, from
+whose flesh he made food which his father liked.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Among other customs of that time which seem strange to us now was that
+of rich men and their wives and their sons as well preparing food with
+their own hands, although it is done in the East to some extent in
+these days.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Abraham was certainly a rich man with a host of servants at command,
+yet the Bible tells us that Sarah, his wife, prepared with her own
+hands the food for the strangers who visited the patriarch as he sat in
+the door of his tent by the Oaks of Mamre.  We can understand then that
+the sons of Isaac, who were even richer than his father, prepared food
+themselves.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Esau was looked upon as the older son and treated accordingly.  There
+were certain privileges which by custom were given to oldest sons at
+their fathers' deaths, and these things constituted what was called a
+birthright.  In addition to being treated as the older son Esau was
+also the favorite son of his father.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+But Rebekah loved Jacob more than she did Esau.  Jacob was of a much
+quieter disposition than his brother, living near his mother and
+probably spending much of his time with her.  We may think of him as a
+man who liked to live in comfort and peace, hospitable to strangers, as
+was the custom of the country, yet all the time wishing, as he looked
+out over the flocks and herds, that his was to be an older brother's
+portion when they were divided.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The word Jacob means "supplanter," or one who takes the place of
+another, and Jacob acted up to the meaning of his name at the first
+opportunity.  It came about in this way.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob was cooking some food one day which smelt and looked very
+tempting to Esau when he came in hungry and tired to the point of
+exhaustion from one of his hunting trips.  He asked his brother to give
+him some of this food, and Jacob, seeing a chance to acquire what he
+coveted, told him he would do so if he would give him his birthright in
+exchange for it.  Probably Esau's hunger was more to him at the moment
+than any privileges he might have later in life, so he consented and
+the bargain was made.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img011a.jpg" ALT="Jacob was cooking some food one day." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="250">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Jacob was cooking some food one day.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+After this there was a famine in the land where Isaac and his family
+lived, but Isaac did not go to Egypt to escape it as his father had
+done on a similar occasion.  Instead, he took his family into the land
+of the Philistines and lived for a time at a place called Gerar.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Isaac grew so prosperous in Gerar that the Philistines envied him.
+They had filled up the wells which his father had dug years before, so
+Isaac, besides reopening them, dug others, about which there were many
+disputes.  Then after a while Isaac took his family to Beersheba, and
+there God renewed to him the promises of future greatness which He had
+made to Abraham.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Both Isaac and Rebekah disapproved of the marriage Esau made with a
+woman of a neighboring tribe, but in spite of this Isaac loved him very
+dearly, and when he felt that he should not live much longer he wished
+to bestow a blessing or promise upon him.  So he called Esau and asked
+him to go once more and get some of the meat he liked and cook it for
+him, telling him that when he brought it he would bless him.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Esau set out on his errand, but as soon as he had gone, Rebekah, who
+had overheard what Isaac had said, called Jacob, whom she loved more
+than she did Esau, and told him that now he had a chance to get the
+blessing instead of his brother, and showed him how it could be done.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob was very fond of his mother; he wanted the blessing, but was
+afraid his father would detect the deception and that it would bring a
+curse instead of a blessing.  But his mother told him she would take
+all the blame and then Jacob consented to do as she told him.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Rebekah first sent Jacob to get some meat, which she cooked in the way
+Isaac liked, and then she dressed him in some of Esau's clothes.  Then
+she put hairy skins on his hands and neck to make him feel like Esau if
+Isaac should put his hands on him.  Then she gave him the meat she had
+prepared and sent him on his dishonest errand.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img013a.jpg" ALT="The hands are the hands of Esau." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="290">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  The hands are the hands of Esau.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+So Jacob went where his blind father was sitting and said, "My father."
+And Isaac replied, "Here am I; who art thou, my son?"  Then Jacob told
+him that he was his son Esau, and that he had brought the food as he
+had been asked to do.  Isaac asked him how the meat could have been
+found and prepared so quickly, and Jacob replied, "Because the Lord thy
+God brought it to me."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Still Isaac was not satisfied and had him come nearer that he might
+feel of him, but the disguise was good and Isaac said, "The voice is
+Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."  But before he ate
+he made one more appeal.  "Art thou," he asked, "my very son Esau?" and
+Jacob, forced by the first lie to tell another and then another,
+replied, "I am."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Isaac ate the food and then blessed Jacob, whom he supposed to be Esau.
+He promised a great and prosperous future for him.  People and nations
+should serve him, and his brothers should bow down to him.  Scarcely
+had Jacob left his father, when Esau came back with the food his father
+had asked him to bring and claimed the blessing.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+When Isaac realized that he had been deceived he told Esau that he
+could not recall the promises he had made to the one who had brought
+him the food, and then Esau, who had sold his birthright, and now had
+been tricked out of the blessing that was rightfully his, cried out
+bitterly, "Bless me, even me also, O my father."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Then Isaac told him that it was his brother Jacob who had robbed him,
+and Esau replied, "Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
+supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold,
+now he hath taken away my blessing.  Hast thou not reserved a blessing
+for me?"  And then in the bitterness of his heart he wept.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Moved by Esau's distress, Isaac did bless him, but the promises he made
+were different from those he had given Jacob.  He told Esau that he
+should live by the sword, that he should serve his brother, but that
+the time would come when he would break away from his brother's rule.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Esau hated his brother after this and made threats that he would kill
+him after their father died.  His mother heard of these threats and was
+afraid he would carry them out, so she proposed that Jacob should go to
+her brother Laban and stay with him until Esau's anger had cooled.
+Isaac agreed to this and told him also to choose a wife among Laban's
+daughters.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Before Jacob's departure Isaac blessed him, once more telling him that
+he and his descendants should have the land which God had promised to
+Abraham and his family.  So the mother and her favorite son parted.
+Their deceit had given Jacob the blessing that should have been Esau's,
+but Rebekah was never to see Jacob again.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob started on his journey to his uncle's house, and when night came
+lay down to sleep, making a pillow of stones for his head.  In his
+sleep a wonderful dream or vision came to him.  He saw a ladder with
+its foot resting on the earth and its top reaching to heaven.  Upon
+this ladder angels went up and down, while at the top stood God
+Himself, who promised Jacob that He would be with him wherever he went,
+and that he and his children should have the land in which he was at
+that time.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img017a.jpg" ALT="Upon this ladder angels went up and down." BORDER="2" WIDTH="310" HEIGHT="440">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Upon this ladder angels went up and down.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+When Jacob awoke he made a pillar of the stone upon which his head had
+rested, poured oil upon it, and called the name of the place Bethel.
+Then he made a vow that if God would go with him and provide for him he
+would serve Him and give to Him a tenth part of all he possessed.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Although Jacob knew a good deal about God, up to this time he had no
+personal knowledge of Him, but during, this, his first night from home,
+he had, in a vision, seen God and heard His voice in the most gracious
+of promises.  His whole life was changed, and from that time he was
+God's man.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Then Jacob went on his way again and came to a well near Haran, where
+Laban lived.  This well was not like the one where Eliezer, the steward
+of Abraham, had first seen the maiden who became Jacob's mother.  It
+was more like a cistern or tank with an opening at the top which was
+covered by a great stone which had to be rolled away to get at the
+water.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Three flocks of sheep were lying near by and Jacob asked the shepherds
+if they knew Laban and why they did not water their flocks.  The men
+told him that they knew Laban and that they were waiting for his sheep
+to arrive and then all the flocks would be watered.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Just then Rachel, one of the daughters of Laban, appeared with her
+father's sheep, and the shepherds told Jacob who she was.  Then Jacob
+went to the well, rolled the stone away, and watered Laban's sheep.
+Then he told Rachel who he was and she hastened away to tell her father.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+When Laban heard who had come to visit him he ran to meet Jacob and
+made him welcome just as he had done years before when his sister
+Rebekah had told him of her meeting with her uncle's steward outside
+the city of Nahor.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img021a.jpg" ALT="Meeting of Eliezer and the maiden who became Jacob's
+mother." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="400">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Meeting of Eliezer and the maiden who became Jacob's mother.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+Jacob staid with Laban for a month, helping him with his flocks and
+becoming more and more in love with Rachel.  Then Laban asked him if he
+would like to be his shepherd and if so what wages he would wish.
+Jacob told Laban he would serve him seven years for his daughter Rachel
+and so the bargain was made.  We are told that, "Jacob served seven
+years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love
+he had to her."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+But Laban was as crafty as Jacob had been when he obtained his
+brother's birthright and robbed him of his blessing.  He tricked Jacob
+and made him work seven more years for Rachel.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+After the second seven years had passed and Jacob had married Rachel,
+he made another bargain with Laban and this time it was greatly to his
+own advantage.  He lived with Laban for a number of years and then God
+appeared to him, saying, "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst
+the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee
+out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+So, without letting Laban know anything about it, Jacob took his
+family, his flocks and herds and all his possessions, and started for
+his father's home in the land of Canaan.  He had been gone three days
+before Laban knew that he had left him.  After seven days he overtook
+Jacob camped on Mount Gilead.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+When they met, Laban accused Jacob of carrying away some of his
+possessions, and searched his tent for them; but after a while, not
+finding them, they talked over all that had occurred since Jacob first
+came to Laban's house, and in the end they made a covenant or agreement
+of friendship and set up a heap of stones for a witness to it and
+called it "Mizpah," which means, "The Lord watch between me and thee,
+when we are absent one from another."
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img025a.jpg" ALT="Laban searched Jacob's tent." BORDER="2" WIDTH="330" HEIGHT="290">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Laban searched Jacob's tent.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+So Jacob and his family kept on their way to the land of Canaan.  He
+had now eleven sons and one daughter and was a rich man, for God had
+kept His promise and blessed him abundantly.  On the way he heard that
+his brother Esau was coming to meet him with a band of four hundred
+men.  Jacob remembered how he had taken advantage of his brother and
+was afraid the time for Esau's promised revenge had come.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+But Jacob prayed to God to protect him, and after sending his family by
+night across a little mountain river, he remained alone in the darkness
+on the other side.  The Bible tells us that there he met God in the
+shape of a man and wrestled with Him until morning, saying, "I will not
+let thee go, except thou bless me."  And God did bless him and gave him
+a new name--that of "Israel," which means "a prince of God."
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img027a.jpg" ALT="Jacob wrestled with him until morning." BORDER="2" WIDTH="315" HEIGHT="430">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Jacob wrestled with him until morning.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+In the morning the brothers met, but Esau's anger was all gone and in
+its place was such love for Jacob that he embraced him and kissed him,
+while both wept for joy.  Jacob had prepared a present of sheep and
+cattle and camels and other animals for his brother, which at first
+Esau did not wish to take, but he accepted it at last and then the
+brothers separated, Esau going to the hilly country of Seir, while
+Jacob continued his journey.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img029a.jpg" ALT="Esau's anger was all gone." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="210">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Esau's anger was all gone.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+Jacob halted for a while at a place called Succoth, where he built a
+house for himself and stables for his cattle.  Then he went to Shechem
+and bought some land near the city for "an hundred pieces of silver."
+In the time of his grandfather Abraham money was weighed, not counted,
+but now it was in the shape of rude coins with the figures of lambs
+stamped upon them.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+After a while God told Jacob to go to Bethel, where, on his first night
+from home, he had vowed to give Him a tenth part of all his
+possessions, and to build an altar there.  His way to Bethel lay
+through a hostile country, but God protected him as He had promised;
+and at last Jacob reached the pillar which he had set up, and there he
+built the altar and worshipped God.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob's mother had died during his long absence from home and now her
+old nurse, Deborah, died, so in memory of the great love mother and son
+had for each other he buried Rebekah's faithful servant under an
+oak-tree and called it "the oak of tears."
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img030a.jpg" ALT="The tomb of Rachel near Bethlehem." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="235">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  The tomb of Rachel near Bethlehem.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+From Bethel Jacob now set out for Hebron, but on the way, just before
+they came to Bethlehem--the little village where Jesus was born many
+years afterwards--his beloved Rachel died, leaving him his twelfth and
+last son, whom he called Benjamin.  Rachel was buried where she died
+and a pillar was placed above her grave.  Then Jacob went on to see his
+father, who was then living at Abraham's favorite dwelling-place at the
+"Oaks of Mamre," and there Isaac died, "being old and full of days: and
+his sons Esau and Jacob buried him."
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img031a.jpg" ALT="Isaac died, being old and full of days." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="300">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration: Isaac died, being old and full of days.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+After their father's death Esau and Jacob parted with the best of
+feeling because they were so rich in flocks and herds and servants that
+the land could not sustain two such large tribes.  Jacob continued to
+live quietly at Hebron as the head of his family, in touch with
+everything that went on, but leaving the actual work to be done by
+others.  He had a great number of servants and his ten older sons were
+in charge of his vast flocks and herds.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Joseph was his especial favorite among his sons, and Jacob showed his
+preference in ways that were perhaps not wise.  For one thing, he gave
+him a very handsome coat which distinguished him from his brothers.
+Then he did not send him to tend the flocks and herd the cattle, but
+kept him at home with himself and his little brother Benjamin.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob's sons were not slow to notice their father's fondness for Joseph
+and it made them angry.  They were all older than he and had served
+their father faithfully for many years, while Joseph was only seventeen
+years old.  Another thing made them angry.  Joseph used to have dreams
+and tell them to his brothers in what they thought was a boastful way.
+Their jealousy and anger grew to hatred and they talked over plans for
+getting rid of him.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img033a.jpg" ALT="Joseph used to have dreams and tell them to his
+brothers." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="440">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Joseph used to have dreams and tell them to his brothers.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+At this time Jacob's flocks of sheep were at quite a distance from
+Hebron, cared for by the ten older sons.  Wishing to know how they
+prospered, Jacob sent Joseph to inquire if all was well with them.  So
+Joseph set out on his errand and found his brothers in the
+pasture-lands of Dothan.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+When his brothers saw him coming they decided to get rid of him in some
+way.  Their hearts were full of hatred and they deliberately planned to
+kill their brother.  One thing after another was suggested until at
+last they decided to leave him in a deep, dry water-cistern to starve
+to death.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Reuben, the eldest son, intended to get Joseph out of the cistern later
+and send him home to his father, but he was unable to do this, for in
+his absence his brothers sold Joseph to some merchants who came along
+just then.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img036a.jpg" ALT="His brothers sold Joseph to some merchants." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="250">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  His brothers sold Joseph to some merchants.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+These merchants took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, one of
+the officers of the King's household.  Potiphar was very kind to
+Joseph, and as he grew up made him his steward or overseer.  Joseph had
+very winning manners and in time rose to be the governor or ruler over
+all the land of Egypt and in high favor with King Pharaoh.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img037a.jpg" ALT="Ruler over all the land of Egypt." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="240">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Ruler over all the land of Egypt.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+Meanwhile Joseph's brothers had told their father that Joseph had been
+killed by a wild beast, and in proof they showed Jacob his son's
+handsome coat, which they had taken from him and dipped in blood for
+this purpose.  Jacob mourned long and bitterly for Joseph, and then he
+and his sons lived on much as they had been doing until there was a
+famine in the land and no food was to be had.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Then Jacob sent his ten older sons to Egypt to buy corn, for it was
+plentiful there.  He would not let Benjamin go, however, fearing that
+some harm might come to him.  When Reuben and his brothers reached
+Egypt they were taken to Joseph, the governor, who recognized them at
+once, but pretended to think they were spies.  They protested in vain
+that they had been sent by their father to buy food and that this was
+their only errand.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Joseph asked them if they had any other brothers, and they told him
+there was one more, Benjamin, the youngest.  Then Joseph told them to
+go home and come back again bringing Benjamin with them, and that he
+would keep Simeon, one of their number, until they did this.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+So back they went with their sacks full of corn which Joseph had
+allowed them to buy, and told their father what the governor had said
+and done.  At first Jacob refused to let them take Benjamin away from
+him, but when the corn they had brought home was all gone he consented.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Once more the brothers stood before the governor of Egypt and this time
+Benjamin was with them.  After questioning them once more, letting them
+start on their home-ward journey, and then bringing them back again,
+Joseph told them who he was and how he had been prospered.  He gave
+them food and money and clothes and sent them back to Hebron.  He also
+told them to bring back their father Jacob and gave them wagons in
+which to bring his goods.
+</P>
+
+<CENTER>
+<IMG SRC="images/img039a.jpg" ALT="Joseph told them who he was." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="440">
+
+<H5>
+[Illustration:  Joseph told them who he was.]
+</H5>
+</CENTER>
+
+<P>
+Pharaoh, the King, also sent an invitation to Jacob, and in time he and
+his sons and their families went to Egypt and were given the fertile
+land of Goshen for their home.  They were put in charge of all the
+King's flocks and herds and became very prosperous.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+But before agreeing to this change of home Jacob asked God if he should
+go to Egypt.  God told him to go, and on the way his long-lost son
+Joseph met him and took him to Pharaoh, who received him very kindly.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob and his sons lived peaceably in Egypt for seventeen years, and
+then Jacob died at the age of a hundred and forty-seven years.  But
+before he died he blessed Joseph's two sons and made him promise to
+bury him in the family sepulchre, the cave of Machpelah.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+As the end approached, Jacob blessed all his twelve sons and foretold
+what their lives would be, bestowing a peculiar blessing upon his third
+son, Judah, from whose descendants should be born the Saviour of his
+people.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Jacob's body was embalmed and carried to the land of Canaan, attended
+by his twelve sons, and a great company of Pharaoh's household, and
+buried in the cave of Machpelah as he had directed.
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR><BR><BR>
+
+<hr noshade>
+
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14643 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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