“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. 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 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. 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. 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
Benoni: 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: 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: 25 And the sons of
Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 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. 27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father
unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, 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.” (Ge 35:1-29 AV)
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