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Genesis 35 |
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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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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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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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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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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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And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face
of his brother. |
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But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth. |
9 |
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him. |
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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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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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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And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him. |
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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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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
him, Bethel. |
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard
labour. |
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. |
18 |
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him
Benjamin. |
19 |
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
is Bethlehem. |
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And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day. |
21 |
And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Edar. |
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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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, which were born to him in
Padanaram. |
27 |
And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the
city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned. |
28 |
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore
years. |
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. |