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God said to Jacob, “Leave here, and go up to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem. 5 Then they set out, and a terror from God fell on all the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El-bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under an oak tree south of Bethel. So it was named Allon-bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So He named him Israel.
11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken to him.
14 Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken to him—a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15 Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16 Then they moved on from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labour was difficult. 17 When her labour was at its most severe, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.” 18 As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, and it still there to this day.
21 Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder. 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and laid with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
Jacob had twelve sons:
23 The sons of Leah:
Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph, and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah:
Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah:
Gad, and Asher.
These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28 Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. 29 Then 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.