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Genesis 35

Jacob Moves to Bethel

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Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to  aBethel and  1live there, and make an altar there to  bGod, who appeared to you  cwhen you fled  2from your brother Esau."

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So Jacob said to his  ahousehold and to all who were with him, "Put away  bthe foreign gods which are among you, and  cpurify yourselves and change your garments;

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and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make  aan altar there to God,  bwho answered me in the day of my distress and  chas been with me  1wherever I have gone."

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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which  1they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the  2oak which was near Shechem.

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As they journeyed, there was  1 aa great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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So Jacob came to  aLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

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 aHe built an altar there, and called the place  1El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled  2from his brother.

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Now  aDeborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named  1Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

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Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He  ablessed him.

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 aGod said to him, "Your name is Jacob;  1You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called  2him Israel.

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God also said to him, "I am  1 aGod Almighty;  bBe fruitful and multiply; A nation and a  ccompany of nations shall  2come from you, And  dkings shall  2come forth from  3you.

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aThe land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your  1descendants after you."

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Then  aGod went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

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Jacob set up  aa pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

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So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him,  1 aBethel.

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Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to  aEphrath, Rachel began to give birth and she  1suffered severe labor.

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When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now  ayou have another son."

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It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him  1Ben-oni; but his father called him  2Benjamin.

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So  aRachel died and was buried on the way to  bEphrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the  apillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

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Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the  1 atower of  2Eder.

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It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that  aReuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob--

The Sons of Israel

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 athe sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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 athe sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

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and  athe sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali;

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and  athe sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

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Jacob came to his father Isaac at  aMamre of  bKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

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Now the days of Isaac were  aone hundred and eighty years.

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Isaac breathed his last and died and was  agathered to his people, an  bold man  1of ripe age; and  chis sons Esau and Jacob buried him.



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