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1 - And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

2 - Then Jacob said to 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:

3 - And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

4 - And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [the] ear-rings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.

5 - And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that [were] round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6 - So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that [were] with him.

7 - And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 - But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

9 - And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram; and blessed him.

10 - And God said to 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.

11 - And God said to him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

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

13 - And God went up from him, in the place where he talked with him.

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.

15 - And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.

16 - And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

17 - And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to 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 Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

19 - And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Beth-lehem.

20 - And Jacob set a pillar on her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave to 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:

23 - The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

24 - The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

25 - And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

26 - And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These [are] the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padan-aram.

27 - And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to the city of Arbah (which [is] Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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

29 - And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, [being] old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.