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| 35:1 |
And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'
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| 35:2 |
And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
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| 35:3 |
and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'
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| 35:4 |
And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem;
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| 35:5 |
and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.
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| 35:6 |
And Jacob cometh in to Luz which [is] in the land of Canaan (it [is] Bethel), he and all the people who [are] with him,
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| 35:7 |
and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
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| 35:8 |
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name `Oak of weeping.'
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| 35:9 |
And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;
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| 35:10 |
and God saith to him, `Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.
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| 35:11 |
And God saith to him, `I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;
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| 35:12 |
and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac -- to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'
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| 35:13 |
And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.
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| 35:14 |
And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;
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| 35:15 |
and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.
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| 35:16 |
And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;
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| 35:17 |
and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also [is] a son for thee.'
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| 35:18 |
And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;
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| 35:19 |
and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which [is] Bethlehem,
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| 35:20 |
and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which [is] the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
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| 35:21 |
And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar;
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| 35:22 |
and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.
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| 35:23 |
And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
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| 35:24 |
Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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| 35:25 |
And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.
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| 35:26 |
And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These [are] sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.
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| 35:27 |
And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which [is] Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.
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| 35:28 |
And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years,
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| 35:29 |
and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.
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