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The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis, Chapter 35
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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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So 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 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.
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But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
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And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram,
and blessed him.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
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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.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him,
Bethel.
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way
to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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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.
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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.
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And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is
Bethlehem.
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And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day.
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And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Edar.
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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 Benjamin:
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And thesons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
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And the
sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of
Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
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And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city
of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
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And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
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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.
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