And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage. The cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.
But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me, lo, this second time. My first birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?