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God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." |
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So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes; |
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then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone." |
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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem. |
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As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them. |
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Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, |
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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. |
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And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth. |
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God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. |
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God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he was called Israel. |
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God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you. |
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The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you." |
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Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him. |
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Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. |
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So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. |
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Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. |
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When she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid; for now you will have another son." |
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As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. |
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So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), |
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and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day. |
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Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. |
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While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. |
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The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
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The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. |
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The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. |
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Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens. |
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Now the days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. |
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And Isaac breathed his last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |
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