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Chapter 35 |
1 | 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. |
2 | 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: |
3 |
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. |
4 |
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. |
5 |
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. |
6 |
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he
and all the people that were with him. |
7 | 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. |
8 | But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she
was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth. |
9 | And God
appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed
him. |
10
| 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. |
11 | 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; |
12 |
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. |
13 | And God went up from him in the place
where he talked with him. |
14 |
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. |
15 | And
Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. |
16 | And they journeyed from Bethel; and there
was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labor. |
17 | And it
came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto
her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. |
18 |
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. |
19
| And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is
Bethlehem. |
20 | And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave:
that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. |
21 | And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent
beyond the tower of Edar. |
22 |
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: |
23 | The
sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: |
24 |
The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: |
25 | And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid;
Dan, and Naphtali: |
26 |
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the
sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. |
27 | And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto
Mamre, unto the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned. |
28 | And
the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. |
29 | 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. |