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1God said to Jacob, "Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

1And 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.

2So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

2Then 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:

3We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."

3And 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.

4Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.

4And 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.

5When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

5And 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.

6So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

7Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

7And 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.

8Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.

8But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel.

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.

11God also said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.

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;

12I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the land to your future descendants."

12And 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.

13Then God withdrew from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

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

14Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him--a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

14And 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.

15Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

16They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

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

17During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son."

17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

18With her last breath--for she was dying--she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

18And 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.

19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

20Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel's grave still today.

20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

21Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.

21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

22And 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:

23Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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

24Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.

24The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

25The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

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

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

26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28Isaac lived 180 years.

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

29He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

29And 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.

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