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God Blesses and Renames Jacob

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

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Jacob Returns to Bethel

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

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So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

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And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

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Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.

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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

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And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem.

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And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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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.

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And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

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And 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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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,a because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

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And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.b

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And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

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God appearedc to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

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Jacob is Named Israel

And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.

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And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.

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And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel.

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And God said to him, “I am God Almighty:d be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.e

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And God said to him, I am the Almighty God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins.

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The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”

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And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

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Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.

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

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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it.

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So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

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And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

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The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac

Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distancef from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.

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Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies

And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.

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And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.”

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And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.

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And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni;g but his father called him Benjamin.h

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And it came to pass as her soul was departing -- for she died -- that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.

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

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And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.

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and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

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And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day.

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Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

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And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder.

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While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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The Sons of Jacob

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 of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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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 Benjamin.

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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.

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And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.

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The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.

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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

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The Death of Isaac

And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre -- to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac.

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Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

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And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

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And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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Genesis 35

Genesis 35