¹ In the meantime God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.

² And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.

³ Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.

⁴ So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

⁵ And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

⁶ And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

⁸ At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

⁹ And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

¹⁰ Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

¹¹ And said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of Nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

¹² And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

¹³ And he departed from him.

¹⁴ But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

¹⁵ And calling the name of that place Bethel.

¹⁶ And going forth from thence, he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

¹⁷ By reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

¹⁸ And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, The son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, The son of the right hand.

¹⁹ So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem.

²⁰ And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulcher: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

²¹ Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

²² And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala, the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³ The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zebulon.

²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵ The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphthali.

²⁶ The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

²⁷ And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: Wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

²⁹ And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

¹ And Abraham married another wife, named Cetura:

² Who bore to him Zamran, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.

³ Jecsan also begot Saba and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomin.

⁴ But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.

⁵ And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac.

⁶ And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

⁷ And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

⁸ And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

⁹ And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre;

¹⁰ Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.

¹¹ And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living and seeing.

¹² These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:

¹³ And these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam.

¹⁴ And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

¹⁵ Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

¹⁶ These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

¹⁷ And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.

¹⁸ And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

¹⁹ These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

²⁰ Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

²¹ And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

²² But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

²³ And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and Two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

²⁴ And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

²⁵ He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

²⁶ Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

²⁷ And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.

²⁸ Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

²⁹ And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

³⁰ Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

³¹ And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

³² He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me.

³³ Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

³⁴ And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.