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Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
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As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
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So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
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There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
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After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
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And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
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And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
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The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
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Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
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So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
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Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
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Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
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During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
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And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
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So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
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Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.
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While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
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The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
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And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
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Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
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And Isaac lived 180 years.
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Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.