And God said unto Iacob, arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell
there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when
thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Then said Iacob unto his household
and to all that were with him, put away the strange gods that are among
you and make your selves clean, and change your garments, and let us
arise and go up to Bethel, that I may 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. And they gave unto Iacob all the strange gods which were
under their hands, and all their earings which were in their ears, and
Iacob hid them under an oak at Sichem. And they departed. And the fear
of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst
not follow after the sons of Iacob. So came Iacob to Lus in the land of
Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him.
And he builded there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because
that God {|the LORDe|} appeared unto him there, when he fled from his
brother. Then died Debora Rebecca's nurse, and was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of
lamentation. And God appeared unto Iacob again after he came out of
Mesopotamia, and blessed him and said unto him: Thy name is Iacob.
Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Iacob, but Israel shall be
thy name. And so was his name called Israel. And God said unto him: I
am God allmighty, grow and multiply: for people and a multitude of
people shall spring of thee, yea and kings shall come out of thy loins.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, will I give unto thee, and
unto thy seed after thee will I give it also. And God departed from him
in the place where he talked with him. And Iacob set up a mark in the
place where he talked with him: even a pillar of stone, and poured
drink offering thereon and poured also oil thereon, and called the name
of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. And they departed from
Bethel, and when he was but a field brede from Ephrath, Rahel began to
travail. And in travailing she was in peril. And as she was in pains of
her labour, the midwife said unto her: fear not, for thou shalt have
this son also. Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she
called his name Ben Oni. But his father called him Ben Iamin. and thus
died Rahel and was buried in the way to Ephrath which now is called
Bethlehem. And Iacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called
Rahel's grave pillar unto this day. And Israel went thence and pitched
up his tent beyond the tower of Eder. And it chanced as Israel dwelt in
that land, that Ruben went and lay with Bilha his father's concubine,
and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Iacob were twelve in number.
The sons of Lea: Ruben, Iacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Iuda,
Isachar, and Zabulon. The sons of Rahel: Ioseph and Ben Iamin. The sons
of Bilha Rahel's maid: Dan and Nephtali.
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