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And God
said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and
dwell there: and make there an altar unto God,
that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from
the face of Esau thy brother.
02 Then Jacob said unto his household, and
to all that were with him, Put away the strange
gods that are among you, and be clean, and change
your garments:
03 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel;
and I will make there an altar unto God, who
answered me in the day of my distress, and was
with me in the way which I went.
04 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange
gods which were in their hand, and all their
earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid
them under the oak which was by Shechem.
05 And they journeyed: and the terror of
God was upon the cities that were round about
them, and they did not pursue after the sons of
Jacob.
06 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the
land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the
people that were with him.
07 And he built there an altar, and called
the place Elbethel: because there God appeared
unto him, when he fled from the face of his
brother.
08 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and
she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and
the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
09 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when
he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is
Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more
Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he
called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God
Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and
a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings
shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and
Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed
after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place
where he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place
where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone:
and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he
poured oil thereon.
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15 And Jacob called the name of the place
where God spake with him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and
there was but a little way to come to Ephrath:
and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in
hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear
not; thou shalt have this son also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in
departing, (for she died) that she called his
name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the
way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave:
that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this
day.
21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his
tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt
in that land, that Reuben went and lay with
Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard
it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and
Benjamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid:
Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob,
which were born to him in Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father
unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is
Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred
and fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died,
and was gathered unto his people, being old and
full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried
him.
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