Genesis 35:3-22
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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 distress, 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 oak which was by Shechem.
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5 And they journeyed: and the terror 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 came 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 Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
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9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
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10 And God said unto 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.
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11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful 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.
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13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
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14 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.
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15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
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16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
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18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
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19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
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20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
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21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
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22 And 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: