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Genesis 35 📜 📕 ↷
Jacob Returns to Bethel
1 IN the mean time God spake to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make an altar to God that appeared to thee when thou didst fly from Esau thy brother.📜💬📚
2 And Jacob having called together all his house, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.📜💬📚
3 Arise, and let us go up into Bethel, that we may make there an altar unto God: who herd me in the day of my tribulation, and accompanied me in my journey.📜💬📚
4 They gave to him therefore all the strange gods that they had, and the earlets which were in their ears: but he buried them under the terebinth that is behind the city of Sichem.📜💬📚
5 And when they were departed the terror of God invaded all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue them going away.📜💬📚
6 And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that was with him.📜💬📚
7 And he builded there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.📜💬📚
8 The same time died Debora the nurse of Rebecca, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called The oak of weeping.📜💬📚
9 And God appeared again to Jacob after he returned from Mesopotamia of Siria, and he blessed him,📜💬📚
10 saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel,📜💬📚
11 and said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and multiply: Of thee shall be nations and peoples of nations, kings shall come forth of thy loins.📜💬📚
12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.📜💬📚
13 And he departed from him.📜💬📚
14 But he erected a title of stone in the place where God had spoken unto him: offering upon it liquid offerings, and pouring oil on it,📜💬📚
15 and calling the name of that place, Bethel.📜💬📚
Benjamin Born, Rachel Dies
16 And being gone forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,📜💬📚
17 because of difficulty in her travail, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said unto her: Fear not, for thou shalt have also this a son.📜💬📚
18 And her soul departing for pain, and death now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is the son of the right hand.📜💬📚
19 Rachel therefore died, and was buried in the high way that leadeth to Ephrata, this same is Bethleem.📜💬📚
20 And Jacob erected a title over her sepulchre: This is the title of Rachel's monument, until this present day.📜💬📚
Sons of Jacob
21 Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.📜💬📚
22 And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala his father's concubine: which thing he was not ignorant of. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.📜💬📚
23 The sons of Lia: Ruben the first begotten, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judas, and Issachar, and Zabulon.📜💬📚
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.📜💬📚
25 The sons of Bala Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.📜💬📚
26 The sons of Zelpha Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Siria.📜💬📚
Death of Isaac
27 He came also to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.📜💬📚
28 And the days of Isaac were complete an hundred eighty years.📜💬📚
29 And spent with age he died, and was put to his people, being old and full of days, and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.📜💬📚
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