So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el,
he and all the people that were with him. And he built there an altar,
and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him,
when he fled from the face of his brother. But Deborah Rebekah's
nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak. And God
appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed
him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be
called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his
name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings
shall descend from thee; and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac,
to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the
land. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a
pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured
oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake
with him, Beth-el.
And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come
to Ephrath: and Rachel bare a son. And it came to pass, as her soul was
in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his
father called him Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way
to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave:
that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun, and Dan, and
Naphtali, and Gad, and Asher, and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and
Benjamin.
And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of
Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. And the
days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 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. And Esau took
his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his
house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which
he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the
face of his brother Jacob. For their riches were more than that they
might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could
not bear them because of their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir:
Esau is Edom.
CHAPTER 19
JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN
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