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35And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.'

²Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

³and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; 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.'

⁴And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem.

⁵And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

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

⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place ⁵⁴El-beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁸And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called ⁵⁵Allon-bacuth.

⁹And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹And 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;

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

¹³And God went up from him in the place where He spoke with him.

¹⁴And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He spoke with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon.

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

¹⁶And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

¹⁷And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'

¹⁸And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing—for she died—that she called his name ⁵⁶Ben-oni; but his father called him ⁵⁷Benjamin.

¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath—the same is Beth-lehem.

²⁰And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

²²And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

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

²⁴the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

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

²⁶and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.

²⁷And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba—the same is Hebron—where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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

²⁹And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.