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shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
CHAPTER 35
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.
2
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.
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.
7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: 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 Allon-bachuth.
9
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, 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.
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 labour.
17
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, 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 Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
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:
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The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,
and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
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The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and
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