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And God said to▵ Jacob, Arise, go··up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to God◦, who was seen of▵ thee when thou didst run··away from before Esau thy brother.
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And Jacob said to▵ his house, and to▵ all who were with him, Remove the gods of the foreigner which are in the midst of you, and clean yourselves, and change your raiment;
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and let us arise, and go··up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God◦, who answered me in the day of my adversity, and was with··me in the way which I walked.
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And they gave to▵ Jacob all the gods of the foreigner which were in their hand, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob concealed them under the oak which was by▵ Shechem.
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And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
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And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, this◦ is Bethel, he◦ and all the people that were with him.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel*; for there the gods* were revealed to him when he ran··away from before his brother.
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And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under the oak◦; and he called the name of it Allon-bacuth.
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And God was seen of▵ Jacob yet··again when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall no◦ more◦ be called Jacob, but◦ Israel shall be thy name; and He called his name Israel.
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And God said to him, I◦ am God◦ Shaddai; be··fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall go··forth from thy loins◦.
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And the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
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And God went··up from over him in the place where▵ He spoke with◦ him.
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And Jacob set··up a pillar◦ in the place in which He spoke with◦ him, a pillar◦ of stone; and he poured··out a poured··offering on it, and poured oil on it.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with◦ him, Bethel.
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still a tract of land to come toward Ephrath; and Rachel gave··birth, and it was hard for her’ in giving··birth.
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And it was, when it was hard for her in her giving··birth, that the midwife said to her, Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.
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And it was, when her soul was going··out that she was··about··to··die; and she called his name Benoni; and his father called him Benjamin.
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And Rachel died, and was buried in the way toward Ephrath, this◦ is Bethlehem.
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And Jacob set··up a pillar◦ over her grave; this◦ is the pillar◦ of the grave of Rachel even··until today.
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And Israel journeyed, and stretched··out his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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And it was, when Israel inhabited this◦ land, that Reuben went and lay with◦ Bilhah the concubine of his father, and Israel heard. And the sons of Jacob were twelve:
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the sons of Leah, Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
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the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin;
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and the sons of Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid, Dan and Naphtali;
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and the sons of Zilpah Leah’s handmaid, Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who was··born* to him in Paddan-aram.
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And Jacob came to▵ Isaac his father to Mamre Kiriath-arba, this◦ is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned*
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And the days of Isaac were a hundred years and eighty years.
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And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to▵ his people, old and sated of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
