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Genesis - ch 35 v 1 - 20
- And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
- Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
- And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the ear-rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
- So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that were with him.
- And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
- And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram; and blessed him.
- And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.
- And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
- And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- And God went up from him, in the place where he talked with him.
- And Jacob set up a pillar 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.
- And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.
- And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
- And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
- And it came to pass as her soul was in departing (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
- And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
- And Jacob set a pillar on her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
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