| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God also 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 come forth from you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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; he also poured oil on it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now you have another son." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob-- |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |
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