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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Later, God told Jacob, "Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then let's get up and go to Bethel, where I'll build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who was with me on the road, wherever I went." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As they set out on their journey, because the people who lived in the cities around them feared God, they did not pursue Jacob's sons. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Eventually, Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz (also called Beth-el) in the territory of Canaan. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He built an altar there to God and named the place El Beth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then God told him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel." So God called his name Israel |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and also told him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation— in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you— they'll emerge from your own loins! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I'm giving the land to you!" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13After this, God ascended from the place where he had been speaking to him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Jacob erected a pillar of stone at that very place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering over it, anointed it with oil, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and named the place where God had spoken to him Beth-el. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, "Don't fear! You're going to have another son." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Just before she died, Rachel called her son's name Ben-oni, but his father Jacob named him Benjamin. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Jacob continued his travels, and eventually pitched his tent facing Migdal Eder. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went inside his father's tent and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Rachel's servant Bilhah's sons were Dan and Naphtali. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Leah's servant Zilpah's sons were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him while he lived in Paddan-aram. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Isaac had lived a total of 180 years |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |
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