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Chapter 35· Book I of 39
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.” 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel. 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you will I give the land.” 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.” 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25Verse 25. Open verse actions.The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali. 26Verse 26. Open verse actions.The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. 27Verse 27. Open verse actions.Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. 28Verse 28. Open verse actions.The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. 29Verse 29. Open verse actions.Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.