| 1: 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. |
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| 2: 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: |
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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. |
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| 4: 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. |
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| 5: 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. |
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| 6: So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. |
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| 7: And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his
brother. |
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| 8: But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. |
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| 9: And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram,
and blessed him. |
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| 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. |
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| 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; |
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| 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. |
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| 13: And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 18: And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died)
that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. |
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| 19: And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is
Bethlehem. |
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| 20: And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day. |
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| 21: And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Edar. |
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| 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: |
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| 23: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and
Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: |
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| 24: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: |
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| 25: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: |
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| 26: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these
are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. |
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| 27: And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of
Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. |
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| 28: And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. |
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| 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. |
