Genesis:35

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* And God said unto Jacob , Arise , go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God , who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau , thy brother . * 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 : * 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 has been with me in the way which I have gone . * So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were ] in their power and [all their ] earrings which [were ] in their ears , and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was ] by Shechem . * 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 . * And Jacob came to Luz , which [is ] in the land of Canaan , that [is ], Bethel , he and all the people that [were ] with him . * And there he built an altar and called the place Elbethel because there God had appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother . * Then Deborah , Rebekah 's nurse , died , and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak , and the name of it was called Allonbachuth . * And God appeared unto Jacob again when he came out of Padanaram and blessed him . * 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 . * And God said unto him , I [am ] God Almighty ; be fruitful and multiply , a nation and a company of nations ([Gentiles ]) shall come out of thee , and kings shall come out of thy loins ; * and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac , to thee will I give it and to thy seed after thee will I give the land . * And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him . * 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 upon it , and he poured oil upon it . * And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him , Bethel . * And they journeyed from Bethel , and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath when Rachel travailed , and she had hard labour . * And it came to pass when she was in hard labour , that the midwife said unto her , Fear not ; thou shalt have this son also . * And it came to pass as her soul was departing , (for she died ) that she called his name Benoni , but his father called him Benjamin . * Thus Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath , which [is ] Bethlehem . * And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave ; that [is ] the pillar of Rachel 's grave unto this day . * And Israel journeyed and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar . * 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 [of it ]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve : * The sons of Leah : Reuben , Jacob 's firstborn , Simeon , Levi , Judah , Issachar , and Zebulun . * The sons of Rachel : Joseph and Benjamin . * And the sons of Bilhah , Rachel 's handmaid : Dan and Naphtali . * And the sons of Zilpah , Leah 's handmaid : Gad and Asher . These [are ] the sons of Jacob , who were born to him in Padanaram . * And Jacob came unto Isaac , his father , unto Mamre , unto the city of Arbah , which [is ] Hebron , where Abraham and Isaac sojourned . * And the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years . * And Isaac expired 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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