Genesis:35

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drb @Genesis:35:1 @In the meantime God said to Jacob : Arise , and go up to Bethel , and dwell there , and make there an altar to God , who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother . drb @Genesis:35:2 @And Jacob having called together all his household , said : Cast away the strange gods that are among you , and be cleansed and change your garments . drb @Genesis:35:3 @Arise , and let us go up to Bethel , that we may make there an altar to God : who heard me in the day of my affliction , and accompanied me in my journey . drb @Genesis:35:4 @So they gave him all the strange gods they had , and the earrings which were in their ears : and he buried them under the turpentine tree , that is behind the city of Sichem . drb @Genesis:35:5 @And when they were departed , the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about , and they durst not pursue after them as they went away . drb @Genesis:35:6 @And Jacob came to Luza , which is in the land of Chanaan , surnamed Bethel : he and all the people that were with him . drb @Genesis:35:7 @And he built there an altar , and called the name of that place , The house of God : for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother . drb @Genesis:35:8 @At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died , and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak : and the name of that place was called , The oak of weeping . drb @Genesis:35:9 @And God appeared again to Jacob , after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria , and he blessed him , drb @Genesis:35:10 @Saying : Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob , but Israel shall be thy name . And he called him Israel . drb @Genesis:35:11 @And said to him : I am God Almighty , increase thou and be multiplied . Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee , and kings shall come out of thy loins . drb @Genesis:35:12 @And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac , I will give to thee , and to thy seed after thee . drb @Genesis:35:13 @And he departed from him . drb @Genesis:35:14 @But he set up a monument of stone , in the place where God had spoken to him : pouring drink offerings upon it , and pouring oil thereon : drb @Genesis:35:15 @And calling the name of that place Bethel . drb @Genesis:35:16 @And going forth from thence , he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata : wherein when Rachel was in travail , drb @Genesis:35:17 @By reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger , and the midwife said to her : Fear not , for thou shalt have this son also . drb @Genesis:35:18 @And when her soul was departing for pain , and death was now at hand , she called the name of her son Benoni , that is , The son of my pain : but his father called him Benjamin , that is , The son of the right hand . drb @Genesis:35:19 @So Rachel died , and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata , that is Bethlehem . drb @Genesis:35:20 @And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulcher : this is the pillar of Rachel 's monument , to this day . drb @Genesis:35:21 @Departing thence , he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower . drb @Genesis:35:22 @And when he dwelt in that country , Ruben went , and slept with Bala , the concubine of his father : which he was not ignorant of . Now the sons of Jacob were twelve . drb @Genesis:35:23 @The sons of Lia : Ruben the firstborn , and Simeon , and Levi , and Juda , and Issachar , and Zebulon . drb @Genesis:35:24 @The sons of Rachel : Joseph and Benjamin . drb @Genesis:35:25 @The sons of Bala , Rachel 's handmaid : Dan and Naphthali . drb @Genesis:35:26 @The sons of Zelpha , Lia 's handmaid : Gad and Aser : these are the sons of Jacob , that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria . drb @Genesis:35:27 @And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre , the city of Arbee , this is Hebron : Wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned . drb @Genesis:35:28 @And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years . drb @Genesis:35:29 @And being spent with age he died , and was gathered to his people , being old and full of days : and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him .

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