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Chapter 35 |
| 1 | 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: |
| 3 | 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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4 | 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. |
| 5 |
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. |
| 6 | 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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7 | 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. |
| 8 | But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was
buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth. |
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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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11 | 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; |
| 12 | 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. |
| 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 spake with him, Bethel. |
| 16 | And
they journeyed from Bethel; 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 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. |
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19 | And Rachel died, and was buried in the
way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. |
| 20 | 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: |
| 23
| The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: |
| 24 | The sons of
Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: |
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25 | And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: |
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26 | And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him
in Padanaram. |
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27 | And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arba, 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. |
