| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then God said to Jacob, “Get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother, Esau.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Jacob told everyone in his household, “Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We are now going to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who answered my prayers when I was in distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob’s family. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel) in Canaan. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Jacob built an altar there and named the place El-bethel (which means “God of Bethel”), because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Soon after this, Rebekah’s old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”). |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10saying, “Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. From now on your name will be Israel.” So God renamed him Israel. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then God said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Be fruitful and multiply. You will become a great nation, even many nations. Kings will be among your descendants! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And I will give you the land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac. Yes, I will give it to you and your descendants after you.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then God went up from the place where he had spoken to Jacob. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had spoken to him. Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive oil. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And Jacob named the place Bethel (which means “house of God”), because God had spoken to him there. The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan moved on toward Ephrath. But Rachel went into labor while they were still some distance away. Her labor pains were intense. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, “Don’t be afraid—you have another son!” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means “son of my sorrow”). The baby’s father, however, called him Benjamin (which means “son of my right hand”). |
| 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 stone monument over Rachel’s grave, and it can be seen there to this day. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Jacob traveled on and camped beyond Migdal-eder. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob: |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob’s oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Isaac lived for 180 years. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him. |
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