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| 35:1 |
Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
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| 35:2 |
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
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| 35:3 |
and let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone."
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| 35:4 |
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
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| 35:5 |
As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
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| 35:6 |
So 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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| 35:7 |
And he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him, when he fled from his brother.
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| 35:8 |
Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.
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| 35:9 |
Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
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| 35:10 |
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.
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| 35:11 |
God also 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 come forth from you.
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| 35:12 |
"And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you."
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| 35:13 |
Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.
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| 35:14 |
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a libation on it; he also poured oil on it.
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| 35:15 |
So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
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| 35:16 |
Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor.
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| 35:17 |
And it came about when she was in severe labor that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now you have [another] son."
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| 35:18 |
And it came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
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| 35:19 |
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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| 35:20 |
And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
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| 35:21 |
Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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| 35:22 |
And it came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard [of it]. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob--
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| 35:23 |
the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
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| 35:24 |
the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
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| 35:25 |
and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali;
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| 35:26 |
and the 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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| 35:27 |
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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| 35:28 |
Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
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| 35:29 |
And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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