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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then 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: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And 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. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And 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; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And 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. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And 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: |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and 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 handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And 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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