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Jacob Returns to Bethel

  35. Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from yopur brother Esau." So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Go rid of foreign Gods you have with you, and purify youselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me where I have gone." So they gave Jacob all the foreign Gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at sheshem. Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursed them.

   Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz(that is Bethel) in the land of Canaan. There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brotjer. Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth. After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel.

  And God said to him, " I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will cone from you, and kings will come your body. The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you." Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.

  The  Death of Rachel and Isaac    

  Then they moved on from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Ravhel began to give birth and had great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son." As she breathed her last-for she was dying-she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath(that is, Bethlehem). Over her tomb Jacob set iup a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb. Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Elder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilha, and Israel heared of it.

  Jacob had twelve sons: The son of Leah: Reuben thr firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Livi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. The son of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. The son of Rachel's maidservant Bilhar: Dan and  Naphtali. The son of Leah's maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.  Jacob come home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba(that is Hebron), Where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. Then breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And Esau and Jacob buried him.