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God said to Jacob , "
Arise ,
go up to Bethel ,
and dwell there ;
and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau ."
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So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him , "
Put away the foreign gods that are among you ,
and purify yourselves ,
and change your garments ;
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then let us arise and go up to Bethel ,
that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone ."
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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had ,
and the rings that were in their ears ;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem .
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And as they journeyed ,
a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them ,
so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob .
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And Jacob came to Luz (
that is ,
Bethel ),
which is in the land of Canaan ,
he and all the people who were with him ,
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and there he built an altar ,
and called the place El-bethel ,
because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother .
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And Deb '
orah ,
Rebekah '
s nurse ,
died ,
and she was buried under an oak below Bethel ;
so the name of it was called Al '
lon-bacuth .
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God appeared to Jacob again ,
when he came from Paddan-aram ,
and blessed him .
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And God said to him , "
Your name is Jacob ;
no longer shall your name be called Jacob ,
but Israel shall be your name ."
So his name was called Israel .
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And God said to him , "
I am God Almighty :
be fruitful and multiply ;
a nation and a company of nations shall come from you ,
and kings shall spring from you .
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The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you ,
and I will give the land to your descendants after you ."
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Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him .
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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him ,
a pillar of stone ;
and he poured out a drink offering on it ,
and poured oil on it .
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So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him ,
Bethel .
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Then they journeyed from Bethel ;
and when they were still some distance from Ephrath ,
Rachel travailed ,
and she had hard labor .
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And when she was in her hard labor ,
the midwife said to her , "
Fear not ;
for now you will have another son ."
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And as her soul was departing (
for she died ),
she called his name Ben-o '
ni ;
but his father called his name Benjamin .
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So Rachel died ,
and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (
that is ,
Bethlehem ),
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and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave ;
it is the pillar of Rachel '
s tomb ,
which is there to this day .
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Israel journeyed on ,
and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder .
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While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father '
s concubine ;
and Israel heard of it .
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve .
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The sons of Leah :
Reuben (
Jacob '
s first-born ),
Simeon ,
Levi ,
Judah ,
Is '
sachar ,
and Zeb '
ulun .
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The sons of Rachel :
Joseph and Benjamin .
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The sons of Bilhah ,
Rachel '
s maid :
Dan and Naph '
tali .
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The sons of Zilpah ,
Leah '
s maid :
Gad and Asher .
These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram .
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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre ,
or Kir '
iath-ar '
ba (
that is ,
Hebron ),
where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned .
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Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years .
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And Isaac breathed his last ;
and he died and was gathered to his people ,
old and full of days ;
and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him .
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These are the descendants of Esau (
that is ,
Edom ).
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Esau took his wives from the Canaanites :
Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite ,
Oholiba '
mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib '
eon the Hivite ,
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and Bas '
emath ,
Ish '
mael '
s daughter ,
the sister of Neba '
ioth .
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And Adah bore to Esau ,
El '
iphaz ;
Bas '
emath bore Reu '
el ;
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and Oholiba '
mah bore Je '
ush ,
Jalam ,
and Korah .
These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan .
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Then Esau took his wives ,
his sons ,
his daughters ,
and all the members of his household ,
his cattle ,
all his beasts ,
and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan ;
and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob .
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For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together ;
the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their cattle .
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So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Se '
ir ;
Esau is Edom .
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These are the descendants of Esau the father of the E '
domites in the hill country of Se '
ir .
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These are the names of Esau '
s sons :
El '
iphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau ,
Reu '
el the son of Bas '
emath the wife of Esau .
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The sons of El '
iphaz were Teman ,
Omar ,
Zepho ,
Gatam ,
and Kenaz .
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Timna was a concubine of El '
iphaz ,
Esau '
s son ;
she bore Am '
alek to El '
iphaz .)
These are the sons of Adah ,
Esau '
s wife .
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These are the sons of Reu '
el :
Nahath ,
Zerah ,
Shammah ,
and Mizzah .
These are the sons of Bas '
emath ,
Esau '
s wife .
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These are the sons of Oholiba '
mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib '
eon ,
Esau '
s wife :
she bore to Esau Je '
ush ,
Jalam ,
and Korah .
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These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau .
The sons of El '
iphaz the first-born of Esau :
the chiefs Teman ,
Omar ,
Zepho ,
Kenaz ,
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Korah ,
Gatam ,
and Am '
alek ;
these are the chiefs of El '
iphaz in the land of Edom ;
they are the sons of Adah .
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These are the sons of Reu '
el ,
Esau '
s son :
the chiefs Nahath ,
Zerah ,
Shammah ,
and Mizzah ;
these are the chiefs of Reu '
el in the land of Edom ;
they are the sons of Bas '
emath ,
Esau '
s wife .
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These are the sons of Oholiba '
mah ,
Esau '
s wife :
the chiefs Je '
ush ,
Jalam ,
and Korah ;
these are the chiefs born of Oholiba '
mah the daughter of Anah ,
Esau '
s wife .
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These are the sons of Esau (
that is ,
Edom ),
and these are their chiefs .
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These are the sons of Se '
ir the Horite ,
the inhabitants of the land :
Lotan ,
Shobal ,
Zib '
eon ,
Anah ,
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Dishon ,
Ezer ,
and Dishan ;
these are the chiefs of the Horites ,
the sons of Se '
ir in the land of Edom .
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The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman ;
and Lotan '
s sister was Timna .
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These are the sons of Shobal :
Alvan ,
Man '
ahath ,
Ebal ,
Shepho ,
and Onam .
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These are the sons of Zib '
eon :
A '
iah and Anah ;
he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness ,
as he pastured the asses of Zib '
eon his father .
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These are the children of Anah :
Dishon and Oholiba '
mah the daughter of Anah .
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These are the sons of Dishon :
Hemdan ,
Eshban ,
Ithran ,
and Cheran .
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These are the sons of Ezer :
Bilhan ,
Za '
avan ,
and Akan .
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These are the sons of Dishan :
Uz and Aran .
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These are the chiefs of the Horites :
the chiefs Lotan ,
Shobal ,
Zib '
eon ,
Anah ,
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Dishon ,
Ezer ,
and Dishan ;
these are the chiefs of the Horites ,
according to their clans in the land of Se '
ir .
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These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom ,
before any king reigned over the Israelites .
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Bela the son of Be '
or reigned in Edom ,
the name of his city being Din '
habah .
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Bela died ,
and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead .
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Jobab died ,
and Husham of the land of the Te '
manites reigned in his stead .
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Husham died ,
and Hadad the son of Bedad ,
who defeated Mid '
ian in the country of Moab ,
reigned in his stead ,
the name of his city being Avith .
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Hadad died ,
and Samlah of Masre '
kah reigned in his stead .
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Samlah died ,
and Shaul of Reho '
both on the Euphra '
tes reigned in his stead .
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Shaul died ,
and Ba '
al-ha '
nan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead .
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Ba '
al-ha '
nan the son of Achbor died ,
and Hadar reigned in his stead ,
the name of his city being Pau ;
his wife '
s name was Mehet '
abel ,
the daughter of Matred ,
daughter of Me '
zahab .
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These are the names of the chiefs of Esau ,
according to their families and their dwelling places ,
by their names :
the chiefs Timna ,
Alvah ,
Jetheth ,
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Oholiba '
mah ,
Elah ,
Pinon ,
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Kenaz ,
Teman ,
Mibzar ,
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Mag '
diel ,
and Iram ;
these are the chiefs of Edom (
that is ,
Esau ,
the father of Edom ),
according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession .
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Jacob dwelt in the land of his father '
s sojournings ,
in the land of Canaan .
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This is the history of the family of Jacob .
Joseph ,
being seventeen years old ,
was shepherding the flock with his brothers ;
he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah ,
his father '
s wives ;
and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father .
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children ,
because he was the son of his old age ;
and he made him a long robe with sleeves .
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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers ,
they hated him ,
and could not speak peaceably to him .
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Now Joseph had a dream ,
and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more .
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He said to them , "
Hear this dream which I have dreamed :
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behold ,
we were binding sheaves in the field ,
and lo ,
my sheaf arose and stood upright ;
and behold ,
your sheaves gathered round it ,
and bowed down to my sheaf ."
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His brothers said to him , "
Are you indeed to reign over us ?
Or are you indeed to have dominion over us ?"
So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words .
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Then he dreamed another dream ,
and told it to his brothers ,
and said , "
Behold ,
I have dreamed another dream ;
and behold ,
the sun ,
the moon ,
and eleven stars were bowing down to me ."
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But when he told it to his father and to his brothers ,
his father rebuked him ,
and said to him , "
What is this dream that you have dreamed ?
Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you ?"
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And his brothers were jealous of him ,
but his father kept the saying in mind .
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Now his brothers went to pasture their father '
s flock near Shechem .
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And Israel said to Joseph , "
Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem ?
Come ,
I will send you to them ."
And he said to him , "
Here I am ."
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So he said to him , "
Go now ,
see if it is well with your brothers ,
and with the flock ;
and bring me word again ."
So he sent him from the valley of Hebron ,
and he came to Shechem .
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And a man found him wandering in the fields ;
and the man asked him , "
What are you seeking ?"
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I am seeking my brothers ,"
he said , "
tell me ,
I pray you ,
where they are pasturing the flock ."
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And the man said , "
They have gone away ,
for I heard them say , `
Let us go to Dothan .'"
So Joseph went after his brothers ,
and found them at Dothan .
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They saw him afar off ,
and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him .
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They said to one another , "
Here comes this dreamer .
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Come now ,
let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits ;
then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him ,
and we shall see what will become of his dreams ."
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But when Reuben heard it ,
he delivered him out of their hands ,
saying , "
Let us not take his life ."
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And Reuben said to them , "
Shed no blood ;
cast him into this pit here in the wilderness ,
but lay no hand upon him "--
that he might rescue him out of their hand ,
to restore him to his father .
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So when Joseph came to his brothers ,
they stripped him of his robe ,
the long robe with sleeves that he wore ;
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and they took him and cast him into a pit .
The pit was empty ,
there was no water in it .
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Then they sat down to eat ;
and looking up they saw a caravan of Ish '
maelites coming from Gilead ,
with their camels bearing gum ,
balm ,
and myrrh ,
on their way to carry it down to Egypt .
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Then Judah said to his brothers , "
What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood ?
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Come ,
let us sell him to the Ish '
maelites ,
and let not our hand be upon him ,
for he is our brother ,
our own flesh ."
And his brothers heeded him .
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Then Mid '
ianite traders passed by ;
and they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit ,
and sold him to the Ish '
maelites for twenty shekels of silver ;
and they took Joseph to Egypt .
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When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit ,
he rent his clothes
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and returned to his brothers ,
and said , "
The lad is gone ;
and I ,
where shall I go ?"
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Then they took Joseph '
s robe ,
and killed a goat ,
and dipped the robe in the blood ;
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and they sent the long robe with sleeves and brought it to their father ,
and said , "
This we have found ;
see now whether it is your son '
s robe or not ."
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And he recognized it ,
and said , "
It is my son '
s robe ;
a wild beast has devoured him ;
Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces ."
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Then Jacob rent his garments ,
and put sackcloth upon his loins ,
and mourned for his son many days .
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All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him ;
but he refused to be comforted ,
and said , "
No ,
I shall go down to Sheol to my son ,
mourning ."
Thus his father wept for him .
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Meanwhile the Mid '
ianites had sold him in Egypt to Pot '
i-phar ,
an officer of Pharaoh ,
the captain of the guard .
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It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers ,
and turned in to a certain Adullamite ,
whose name was Hirah .