1In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

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Genesis 31:13, Genesis 31:13, Hosea 12:4, Hosea 12:4, Genesis 35:7

2And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

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Exodus 19:14, Exodus 19:10, Exodus 19:14, Exodus 19:10, James 4:8

3Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

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Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 43:2, Genesis 32:7, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 32:7

4So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

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Judges 9:6, Judges 9:6, Exodus 32:20, Isaiah 30:22, Judges 8:24

5And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

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Exodus 23:27, Exodus 23:27, 2 Chronicles 17:10, 2 Chronicles 17:10, Joshua 5:1

6And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

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Genesis 28:19, Genesis 28:19, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 28:22, Genesis 12:8

7And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

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Genesis 35:1, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 35:3, Genesis 35:1, Genesis 28:13

8At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

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Genesis 24:59, Genesis 24:59, 1 Samuel 31:13, 1 Samuel 31:13, Judges 2:5

9And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

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Genesis 35:1, Genesis 18:1, Genesis 26:2, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 35:1

10Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

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Genesis 17:5, Genesis 17:5, Genesis 32:27, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 32:27

11And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

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Genesis 17:1, Genesis 17:1, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 22:17

12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

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Genesis 12:7, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 26:3

13And he departed from him.

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Genesis 17:22, Genesis 17:22, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 11:5

14But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

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Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:19, Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:19, Genesis 31:45

15And calling the name of that place Bethel.

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Genesis 28:19, Genesis 28:19

16And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

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Micah 5:2, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:18, Genesis 48:7, Matthew 2:18

17By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

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Genesis 30:24, Genesis 30:24, 1 Samuel 4:19, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 4:19

18And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

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Acts 7:59, 1 Chronicles 4:9, Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59, 1 Chronicles 4:9

19So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

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Micah 5:2, Micah 5:2, Genesis 48:7, Genesis 48:7, Ruth 4:11

20And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

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1 Samuel 10:2, 1 Samuel 10:2, Genesis 35:14, 2 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 18:18

21Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

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Micah 4:8, Micah 4:8, Luke 2:8, Luke 2:8

22And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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1 Chronicles 5:1, 1 Chronicles 5:1, Leviticus 18:8, Leviticus 18:8, 2 Samuel 16:21

23The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.

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Genesis 30:18, Genesis 30:20, Genesis 30:18, Genesis 30:20, Genesis 29:32

24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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Genesis 30:22, Genesis 30:24, Genesis 30:22, Genesis 30:24, Genesis 46:19

25The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.

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Genesis 46:23, Genesis 46:25, Genesis 30:4, Genesis 30:8, Genesis 37:2

26The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

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Genesis 31:18, Genesis 30:9, Genesis 30:13, Genesis 46:16, Genesis 46:18

27And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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Genesis 13:18, Genesis 13:18, Genesis 23:19, Genesis 23:19, Genesis 18:1

28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

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Genesis 25:7, Genesis 25:7, Genesis 50:26, Genesis 50:26, Genesis 47:28

29And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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Genesis 15:15, Genesis 15:15, Genesis 49:33, Genesis 49:33, Genesis 49:31