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¹ And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.² Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:³ and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.⁴ And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.⁵ And they journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

⁶ So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.⁸ And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.¹⁰ And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he named him Israel.¹¹ And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of your loins;¹² and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you I will give the land.¹³ And God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.¹⁴ And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon.¹⁵ And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.

¹⁶ And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.¹⁷ And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Don't be afraid; for now you shall have another son.¹⁸ And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.¹⁹ And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).²⁰ And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²¹ And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.²² And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it, and it was evil in his eyes. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;²⁴ the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;²⁵ and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's slave: Dan and Naphtali;²⁶ and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.²⁷ And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.²⁸ And the days of Isaac were 180 years.²⁹ And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.