 1 God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments. 3 Let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make an altar there to God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way that I went. 4 They gave all the strange gods that were in their hands to Jacob, and the earrings in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak that was by Shechem. 5 They moved and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people with him. 7 He built an altar there and called the place Elbethel, because God appeared to him there when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel, under an oak. And the name of it was called Oak of Weeping. 9 God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padanaram and blessed him. 10 God said to him, your name was Jacob, but you shall not be called Jacob any more. Your name shall be Israel. 11 God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out of your loins. 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land. 13 God went up from him in the place where He talked with him. 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel. 16 They moved from Bethel. And there was only a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor in her bearing. 17 When she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also. 18 As her soul was departing for she died that she named him Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin. 19 Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath that is Bethlehem. 20 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. That is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. 21 Israel moved, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. 22 When Israel lived in that land, Reuben laid with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons: 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 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's slave woman: Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave woman: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padanaram. 27 Jacob came to his father Isaac, to Mamre, to the city of Arba that is Hebron, where Abraham had lived, and Isaac. 28 The days of Isaac were 180 years. 29 Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
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