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God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an 
altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou 1fleddest from the face of 
Esau thy brother.
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| 2 | Then 
Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, 1Put away the
strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and 2change your garments:
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| 3 | And let us arise, and go up 
to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day 
of my 1distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
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| 4 | And they gave unto Jacob all the strange 
gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; 
and Jacob hid them under the 1oak which was by Shechem.
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| 5 | And they journeyed: and the 1terror of 
God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue 
after the sons of Jacob.
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| 6 | So Jacob 1came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he 
and all the people that were with him.
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| 7 | And he built there an altar, and called the place aElbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. | 
| 8 | But 
Deborah Rebekah's 1nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: 
and the name of it was called aAllonbachuth.
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| 9 | And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. | 
| 10 | And God 1said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called 
any more Jacob, but aIsrael shall be thy name: and he called his name 
Israel.
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| 11 | And God said 
unto him, I am 1God Almighty: be 2fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company 
of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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| 12 | 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. | 
| 13 | And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. | 
| 14 | And Jacob set up a 1pillar 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.
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| 15 | And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. | 
| 16 | And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to aEphrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. | 
| 17 | And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. | 
| 18 | And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name aBenoni: but his father called him bBenjamin. | 
| 19 | And Rachel 1died, and was buried in the way to 2Ephrath, which is 
Bethlehem.
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| 20 | And Jacob 
set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of 1Rachel's grave unto this 
day.
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| 21 | And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. | 
| 22 | And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt 
in that land, that Reuben went and 1lay with 2Bilhah his father's concubine: and 
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
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| 23 | The sons of Leah; 1Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and 
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
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| 24 | The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: | 
| 25 | And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: | 
| 26 | And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. | 
| 27 | And 
Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto 1Mamre, unto the city of 2Arba, which is 
Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
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| 28 | And the days of Isaac were an ahundred and fourscore years. | 
| 29 | And Isaac gave 
up the ghost, and died, and was 1gathered unto his people, being old and full of 
days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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(a) "Elbethel" - another name for Bethel
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(a) "Allonbachuth" = oak of weeping.
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(a) "Israel" = have power with God.
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(a) "Ephrath" = fruitfulness, another name for Bethlehem.
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(a) "Benoni" = son of my sorrow.
 
(b) "Benjamin" = son of my right hand.
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