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[1]Then God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el and dwell there, and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. |
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[2]Then said Jacob unto his household and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments: |
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[3]For we will rise and go up to Beth-el, and I will make an altar there unto God, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me in the way which I went. |
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[4]And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods, which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak, which was by Shechem. |
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[5]Then they went on their journey, and the fear of God was upon the cities that were round about them: so that they did not follow after the sons of Jacob. |
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[6]So came Jacob to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan: (the same is Beth-el) he and all the people that was with him. |
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[7]And he built there an altar, and had called the place, The God of Beth-el, because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother. |
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[8]Then Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and he called the name of it Allon-bachuth. |
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[9]Again God appeared unto Jacob, after he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. |
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[10]Moreover God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. |
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[11]Again God said unto him, I am God all sufficient. Grow, and multiply. A nation and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. |
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[12]Also I will give the land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, unto thee: and unto thy seed after thee will I give that land. |
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[13]So God ascended from him in the place where he had talked with him. |
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[14]And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured drink offering thereon: also he poured oil thereon. |
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[15]And Jacob called the name of the place, where God spake with him, Bethel. |
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[16]Then they departed from Beth-el, and when there was about half a days journey of ground to come to Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and in travailing she was in peril. |
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[17]And when she was in pains of her labor, the midwife said unto her, Fear not: for thou shalt have this son also. |
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[18]Then as she was about to yield up the Ghost (for she died) she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin. |
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[19]Thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. |
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[20]And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: This is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. |
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[21]Then Israel went forward, and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder. |
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[22]Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. And Jacob had twelve sons. |
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[23]The sons of Leah: Reuben Jacob's eldest son, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. |
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[24]The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
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[25]And the sons of Bilhah Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. |
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[26]And the sons of Zilpah Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born him in Padan-aram. |
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[27]Then Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre a city of Arbah: this is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac were strangers. |
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[28]And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. |
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[29]And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |