1GOD SAID TO JACOB, 'Go up to Bethel and settle there, build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau.' 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, 'Rid yourselves of the foreign gods which you have among you, purify yourselves, and see your clothes are mended . 3We are going to Bethel, so that I can set up an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress, and who has been with me all the way that I have come.' 4So they handed over to Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and the rings from their ears, and he buried them under the terebinth-tree near Shechem. 5Then they set out, and the cities round about were panic-stricken, and the inhabitants dared not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz, that is Bethel, in Canaan. 7There he built an altar, and he called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was running away from his brother. 8Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried under the oak below Bethel, and he named it Allon-bakuth .
9God appeared again to Jacob when he came back from Paddan-aram and blessed him. 10God said to him:
16They set out from Bethel, and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrathah, Rachel was in labour and her pains were severe. 17While her pains were upon her, the midwife said, 'Do not be afraid, this is another son for you.' 18Then with her last breath, as she was dying, she named him Ben-oni , but his father called him Benjamin . 19So Rachel died and was buried by the side of the road to Ephrathah, that is Bethlehem. 20Jacob set up a sacred pillar over her grave; it is known to this day as the Pillar of Rachel's Grave. 21Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent on the other side of Migdal-eder.
22While Israel was living in that district, Reuben went and lay with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel came to hear of it.
The sons of Jacob were twelve. 23The sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. 24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25The sons of Rachel's slave-girl Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali. 26The sons of Leah's slave-girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan-aram.
27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre by Kiriath-arba, that is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt. 28Isaac had lived for a hundred and eighty years 29when he breathed his last. He died and was gathered to his father's kin at a very great age, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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