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1 - And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

2 - And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who <FI>are<Fi> with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which <FI>are<Fi> in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

3 - and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

4 - And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that <FI>are<Fi> in their hand, and the rings that <FI>are<Fi> in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which <FI>is<Fi> by Shechem;

5 - and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which <FI>are<Fi> round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

6 - And Jacob cometh in to Luz which <FI>is<Fi> in the land of Canaan (it <FI>is<Fi> Bethel), he and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him,

7 - and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

8 - And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name `Oak of weeping.'

9 - And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;

10 - and God saith to him, `Thy name <FI>is<Fi> Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.

11 - And God saith to him, `I <FI>am<Fi> God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

12 - and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac--to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

13 - And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.

14 - And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;

15 - and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.

16 - And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

17 - and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also <FI>is<Fi> a son for thee.'

18 - And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

19 - and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which <FI>is<Fi> Bethlehem,

20 - and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which <FI>is<Fi> the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

21 - And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar;

22 - and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

23 - And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 - Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25 - And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.

26 - And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These <FI>are<Fi> sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.

27 - And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which <FI>is<Fi> Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.

28 - And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years,

29 - and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.