Genesis 35

1Now God said to Jacob, 'Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar.

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2Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, 'Put away the foreign gods among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

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3Let us arise and go up to Bethel and make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me and saved me on the road I traveled.'

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4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hands, and the earrings in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree near Shechem.

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5Then Israel departed from Shechem, and the fear of God was upon all the cities around them. Thus they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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6Now Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), in the land of Canaan, he and all the people with him.

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7He built an altar there and called the place Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

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8Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak. So Jacob called its name the Oak of Mourning.

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9Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Mesopotamia, and blessed him.

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10God said to him, 'Your name is Jacob; your name shall not any more be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.'

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11God also said to him, 'I am your God. Increase and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

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12The land I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your seed after you I give this land.'

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13Then God ascended from him in the place where He talked with him.

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14So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

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15Thus Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

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16Then Jacob departed from Bethel, and when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored with much difficulty in childbirth.

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17Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, 'Take courage; you will have this son also.'

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18So it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

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19Thus Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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20Then Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

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21Now Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

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22So it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. Israel heard about it, and it was seen as evil in his sight.

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23Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

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24the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;

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25the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;

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26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

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27Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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28Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

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29So Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days. Thus his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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