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1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”[#Gen 27.43; 28.13, 19]
2So 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 clothes;[#Gen 31.19; Ex 19.10, 14]
3then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”[#Gen 28.15, 20–22; 32.7, 24]
4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.[#Josh 24.26; Hos 2.13]
5As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them.[#Ex 15.16; Deut 2.25; 11.25]
6Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,[#Gen 28.19; 48.3]
7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.[#Gen 28.13; #35.7 That is, God of Bethel]
8And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.[#Gen 24.59; #35.8 That is, oak of weeping]
9God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.[#Gen 32.29; Hos 12.4]
10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he was called Israel.[#Gen 32.28]
11God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.[#Gen 17.1, 6, 16; 28.3; 36.31; 48.4; #35.11 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai]
12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”[#Gen 13.15; 26.3; 28.13]
13Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.[#Gen 17.22]
14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.[#Gen 28.18]
15So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.[#Gen 28.19]
16Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
17When she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for now you have another son.”[#Gen 30.24]
18As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.[#35.18 That is, son of my sorrow; #35.18 That is, son of the right hand or son of the south]
19And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,[#Gen 48.7; Ruth 1.2; Mic 5.2; Mt 2.6]
20and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.[#1 Sam 10.2]
21Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.[#Gen 49.2; 1 Chr 5.1; 1 Cor 5.1]
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali.
26The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens.[#Gen 18.19; 23.9]
28Now the days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
29And Isaac breathed his last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.[#Gen 15.15; 25.8]