35God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."H430H559H3290H6965H5927H1008H3427H6213H4196H410H7200H1272H6440H6215H251 2So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.H3290H559H1004H5493H5236H430H8432H2891H2498H8071 3We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."H6965H5927H1008H6213H4196H410H6030H3117H6869H1870H1980 4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.H5414H3290H5236H430H3027H5141H241H3290H2934H424H7927 5When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.H5265H2847H430H5892H5439H7291H310H1121H3290 6Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.H3290H935H3870H776H3667H1008H5971 7He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.H1129H4196H7121H4725H416H430H1540H1272H6440H251 8Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."H1683H7259H3243H4191H6912H1008H437H8034H7121H439 9When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.H430H7200H3290H935H6307H1288 10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So God named him Israel.H430H559H8034H3290H8034H7121H3290H3478H8034H7121H8034H3478 11And God said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.H430H559H410H7706H6509H7235H1471H6951H1471H4428H3318H2504 12I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you."H776H5414H85H3327H5414H2233H310H5414H776 13Then God left him.H430H5927H4725H1696 14There, where God had spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and consecrated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it.H3290H5324H4676H4725H1696H4678H68H5258H5262H3332H8081 15He named the place Bethel.H3290H7121H8034H4725H430H1696H1008 16Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.H5265H1008H5750H3530H776H935H672H7354H3205H7185H3205 17When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."H7185H3205H3205H559H3372H1121 18But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.H5315H3318H4191H7121H8034H1126H1H7121H1144 19When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.H7354H4191H6912H1870H672H1035 20Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.H3290H5324H4676H6900H4678H7354H6900H3117 21Jacob moved on and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder.H3478H5265H5186H168H1973H4026H4029 22While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.H3478H7931H776H7205H3212H7901H1090H1H6370H3478H8085H1121H3290H8147H6240 23The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.H1121H3812H7205H3290H1060H8095H3878H3063H3485H2074 24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.H1121H7354H3130H1144 25The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.H1121H1090H7354H8198H1835H5321 26The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.H1121H2153H3812H8198H1410H836H1121H3290H3205H6307 27Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.H3290H935H3327H1H4471H7153H2275H85H3327H1481 28Isaac lived to be a hundred and eighty years oldH3117H3327H3967H8141H8084H8141 29and died at a ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.H3327H1478H4191H622H5971H2205H7649H3117H1121H6215H3290H6912
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