1God ('Elohiym) said to Heel-Grabber (Jacob), “Arise, go up to the House of God (Bethel), and dwell there. Make there an altar to the God ('Elohiym), that appeared to you when you fled from the face of Hairy (Esau) your brother.”
2Then Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said to his household, and to all that were with him, “Put away the strange gods that are among you, be clean, and change your garments.
3We will arise, and go up to the House of God (Bethel). I am going to make an altar to God ('Elohiym) there, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me wherever I went.”
4They gave unto Heel-Grabber (Jacob) all the strange gods which were in their possession, and all the earrings which were in their ears. Heel-Grabber (Jacob) took and hid them under the oak which was by Shoulder (Shechem).
5And they journeyed: and the terror of God ('Elohiym) was upon the cities that were round about them so that they did not pursue after the sons of Heel-Grabber (Jacob).
6Heel-Grabber (Jacob) came to Almond Tree (Luz), which is in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), that is, the House of God (Bethel), he and all the people that were with him.
7And there he built an altar, and called the place The God of the House of God (El Bethel): because God ('Elohiym) appeared to him there, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8It was then that Bee (Deborah), Secured's (Rebekah) nurse died, and she was buried beneath the House of God (Bethel) under an oak: and the name of it was called Oak of Weeping (Allon Bachuth).
9God ('Elohiym) appeared unto Heel-Grabber (Jacob) again, when he came out of Field (Padanaram), and blessed him.
10God ('Elohiym) said to him, “Your name is Heel-Grabber (Jacob): Your name shall no longer be called Heel-Grabber (Jacob), but God Prevails (Israel) shall be your name.” So God named him God Prevails (Israel).
11God ('Elohiym) said to him, “I am God ('Elohiym) the Nurturer (Shaddai): be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come out of you, and kings shall be your descendants.
12The land which I gave Father of a Multitude (Abraham) and Laughter (Isaac), I will give to you, and to your seed after you I will give this land.”
14Heel-Grabber (Jacob) set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
15Heel-Grabber (Jacob) called the name of the place where God ('Elohiym) spake with him, the House of God (Bethel).
16Then they journeyed from the House of God (Bethel); a short distance to Ash-Heap: Place of Fruitfulness (Ephrath) where Ewe (Rachel) went into labor, and and her labor was hard.
17When she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Fear not; you will have this son also.”
18As her soul was departing, (for she died) she called his name Son of My Sorrow (Ben-oni): but his father called him Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin).
19Ewe (Rachel) died, and was buried in the way to Ash-Heap: Place of Fruitfulness (Ephrath), which is House of Bread (Bethlehem).
20Heel-Grabber (Jacob) set a pillar on her grave. This pillar of Ewe (Rachel)'s grave is there to this day.
21And God Prevails (Israel) journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Tower of the Flock (Edar).
22While God Prevails (Israel) was dwelling in that land, Behold a Son (Reuben) went and lay with Troubled (Bilhah) his father's concubine and God Prevails (Israel) heard it. Now the sons of Heel-Grabber (Jacob) were twelve:
23The sons of Weary (Leah); Behold a Son (Reuben), Heel-Grabber (Jacob)'s firstborn, and Heard (Simeon), and Joined To (Levi), and Praised (Judah), and Recompense (Issachar), and Exalted (Zebulun):
26The sons of Zilpah, Weary (Leah)'s handmaid: Troop (Gad)), and Happy (Asher): these are the sons of Heel-Grabber (Jacob), which had been born to him at the time he lived in Field (Padanaram).
27Heel-Grabber (Jacob) went to see Laughter (Isaac) his father in Strength (Mamre), at the city of City of the Four (Kirjatharba), which is Association (Hebron), where Father of a Multitude (Abraham) and Laughter (Isaac) sojourned.
29Laughter (Isaac) then gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Hairy (Esau) and Heel-Grabber (Jacob) buried him.
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