1And God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, Who appeared to you when you fled from Esau, your brother.”
2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, Who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in along the way which I went.”
4And they gave to 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 oak which was by Shechem.
5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
7And he built there an altar, and called the place “El-bethel”; because God appeared to him there, when he fled from his brother.
8But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called “Allon-bacuth”.
9And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came out of Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob: your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel shall be your name”: and He called his name Israel.
11And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come out of your loins;
12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your descendants after you.”
13And God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, “Bethel”.
16And they left Bethel; and moved a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
17And when she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Fear not; you shall also have this son”.
18And as her soul was in departing (for she died), that she called his name “Ben-oni”: but his father called him Benjamin.
19And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
24The sons of Rachel: Joseph, and Benjamin;
25And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan, and Naphtali;
26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher; these are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27And Jacob came to Isaac, his father, to Mamre, the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28And the days of Isaac were a hundred eighty years.
29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Easy Reader Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2023 by Jim Musser. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Bible Hub |
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