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And 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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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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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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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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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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So Jacob 1came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. |
| 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. |
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But Deborah Rebekah's 1nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called aAllonbachuth. |
| 9 | And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. |
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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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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; |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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And Rachel 1died, and was buried in the way to 2Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. |
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And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of 1Rachel's grave unto this day. |
| 21 | And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. |
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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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The sons of Leah; 1Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: |
| 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. |
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And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto 1Mamre, unto the city of 2Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. |
| 28 | And the days of Isaac were an ahundred and fourscore years. |
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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 Strongs 416 'El Beyth-'El ale bayth-ale' from 410 and 1008; the God of Bethel; El-Bethel, the title given to a consecrated spot by Jacob:--El-beth-el. 410 'el ale shortened from 352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):--God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el." 1008 Beyth-'El bayth-ale' from 1004 and 410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine:--Beth-el. 1004 bayith bah'-yith probably from 1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.):--court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out). Return to Verse 7 |
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(a) "Allonbachuth" = oak of weeping. Strongs #439 - from 437 (allown = oak) and 1068 (bekiyth = weeping) Return to Verse 8 |
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(a) "Israel" = have power with God. Strongs 3478 Yisra'el yis-raw-ale' from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: 8280 sarah saw-raw' a primitive root; to prevail:--have power (as a prince). 410 'el ale shortened from 352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):--God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el." Return to Verse 10 |
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(a) "Ephrath" = fruitfulness, another name for Bethlehem. Strongs 672 'Ephraath ef-rawth' or mEphrathah {ef-raw'-thaw}; from 6509; fruitfulness; Ephrath, another name for Bethlehem; once (Psa. 132:6) perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelitish woman:--Ephrath, Ephratah. Return to Verse 16 |
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(a) "Benoni" = son of my sorrow. Strongs 1126 Ben-'Owniy ben-o-nee' from 1121 and 205; son of my sorrow; Ben-Oni, the original name of Benjamin:--Ben-oni. (b) "Benjamin" = son of my right hand. Strongs 1144 Binyamiyn bin-yaw-mene' from 1121 and 3225; son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:--Benjamin. Return to Verse 18 |
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(a) "hundred and fourscore years" = 180 years. Return to Verse 28 |
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