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Jacob’s Return to Bethel

¹Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ⚓Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, ⚓who appeared to you ⚓when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
²And Jacob said to his ⚓household and to all who were with him, “Put away ⚓the foreign gods that are among you, ⚓purify yourselves, and change your garments. ³Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, ⚓who answered me in the day of my distress ⚓and has been with me in the way which I have gone.” ⁴So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the ⚓earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under ⚓the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
⁵And they journeyed, and ⚓the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. ⁶So Jacob came to ⚓Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. ⁷And he ⚓built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because ⚓there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
⁸Now ⚓Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.
⁹Then ⚓God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and ⚓blessed him. ¹⁰And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; ⚓your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, ⚓but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel. ¹¹Also God said to him: ⚓“I am God Almighty. ⚓Be fruitful and multiply; ⚓a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. ¹²The ⚓land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.” ¹³Then God ⚓went up from him in the place where He talked with him. ¹⁴So 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.

Death of Rachel

¹⁶Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; ⚓you will have this son also.” ¹⁸And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin. ¹⁹So ⚓Rachel died and was buried on the way to ⚓Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ²⁰And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel’s grave ⚓to this day.
²¹Then Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond ⚓the tower of Eder. ²²And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and ⚓lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard about it.

Jacob’s Twelve Sons

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³the sons of Leah were⚓Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; ²⁴the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.

Death of Isaac

²⁷Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at ⚓Mamre, or ⚓Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt. ²⁸Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. ²⁹So Isaac breathed his last and 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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Yakhauj rov mus rau Npe‑ee

¹Vajtswv hais rau Yakhauj hais tias, “Cia li sawv tsees tsiv mus rau nram Npe‑ee mus nyob nrad es tib ib lub thaj rau tus Vajtswv uas thaum koj khiav koj tus tijlaug Exau es los tshwm rau koj pom.” ²Vim li ntawd Yakhauj thiaj hais rau nws tsev neeg thiab cov neeg uas nrog nws nyob ua ke sawvdaws hais tias, “Cia li muab lwm tebchaws tej dab uas nej coj tso pov tseg huvsi thiab ua kevcai ntxuav lub cev lub siab kom kaj kom huv thiab hloov tsoos tsho huvsi. ³Peb cia li mus lawm nram Npe‑ee mas kuv yuav tib ib lub thaj rau ntawd rau tus Vajtswv uas thaum kuv raug kev txom nyem es nws teb kuv thiab nrog nraim kuv nyob rau txhua qhov chaw uas kuv tau mus.” ⁴Lawv txawm muab lwm haiv neeg tej dab qhuas uas lawv coj thiab muab lawv tej kauj co⚓ uas lawv coj ntawm qhov ntsej huvsi rau Yakhauj, ces Yakhauj txawm muab faus rau hauv tsob qab ntoo xeeb uas nyob ze lub moos Sekhee.
⁵Thaum lawv tsiv mus ntawd mas Vajtswv ua rau tej zej zog thoob plaws hauv tebchaws ntawd ntshai kawg li, lawv thiaj tsis caum Yakhauj cov tub qab. ⁶Yakhauj thiab nws cov neeg sawvdaws los txog ntawm Lu (uas yog Npe‑ee) uas nyob hauv Khana‑as tebchaws. ⁷Yakhauj txawm tib ib lub thaj rau ntawd mas hu qhov chaw ntawd ua Eenpe‑ee,⚓ vim yog qhov chaw uas thaum Yakhauj khiav nws tus tijlaug es Vajtswv los tshwm rau nws pom. ⁸Tus nkauj qhev Denpaula uas tu Lenpekha hlob txawm tuag mas lawv muab nws log rau hauv tsob qab ntoo xeeb nram qab Npe‑ee, mas thiaj hu tsob ntoo ntawd ua Aloo Npakhu.⚓
⁹Thaum Yakhauj tsiv ntawm Pada Alas rov los Vajtswv los tshwm rau Yakhauj dua ib zaug thiab foom koob hmoov rau nws. ¹⁰Vajtswv hais rau nws tias, “Koj npe hu ua Yakhauj⚓ tiamsis yuav tsis hu koj ua Yakhauj dua li lawm, yuav hu koj ua Yixayee.”⚓ Yog li no thiaj hu nws ua Yixayee. ¹¹Thiab Vajtswv hais rau Yakhauj tias, “Kuv yog Vajtswv uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus.⚓ Koj cia li muaj tub ki huaj vam coob coob. Muaj ib haiv neeg yuav tshwm ntawm koj los thiab yuav muaj ntau haiv neeg tshwm ntawm koj los, yuav muaj tej vajntxwv tshwm ntawm koj los. ¹²Lub tebchaws uas kuv muab pub rau Aplahas thiab Yiha lawd kuv yeej yuav pub rau koj thiab pub rau koj caj ces mus li.” ¹³Vajtswv txawm tawm ntawm qhov chaw uas nrog Yakhauj tham mus lawm. ¹⁴Yakhauj txawm txhos ib tug ncej zeb cia rau ntawm qhov chaw uas Vajtswv nrog nws hais lus thiab nws muab cawv txiv hmab hliv ywg ua kevcai hliv xyeem rau saum tus ncej thiab muab roj hliv ywg tus ncej ntawd. ¹⁵Yakhauj hu qhov chaw uas Vajtswv nrog nws hais lus ntawd ua Npe‑ee.⚓

Lachee thiab Yiha tuag

¹⁶Lawv tsiv ntawm Npe‑ee mus tsis tau txog Efatha ces Lachee txawm mob plab heev thiab yug menyuam nyuaj heev. ¹⁷Thaum nws tabtom mob heev tus pojniam uas pab yug menyuam hais rau Lachee tias, “Koj tsis txhob ntshai, koj twb tau dua ib tug metub lawm.” ¹⁸Thaum nws yuav tu siav yuav tuag ntawd nws tis tus metub ntawd npe hu ua Npee‑auni⚓ tiamsis nws txiv tis npe hu ua Npeeyamee.⚓ ¹⁹Ces Lachee txawm tuag lawm, mas lawv muab nws log rau ntawm ntug kev uas mus rau nram lub zos Efatha (uas yog Npelehee). ²⁰Yakhauj muab ib tug ncej zeb txhos rau ntawm lub ntxa. Tus ncej ntawm Lachee lub ntxa mas nyob los txog niaj hnub nimno.
²¹Yixayee kuj tsiv rau tom ntej, mus tsa tsev ntaub nyob dhau plaws lub chaw tsom faj Edaw. ²²Thaum Yixayee nyob rau hauv lub tebchaws ntawd Lunpee txawm mus nrog nws txiv tus niam yau Npiha pw. Yixayee kuj hnov txog qhov ntawd thiab.
Yakhauj muaj kaum ob tug tub. ²³Le‑a cov tub yog Lunpee uas yog Yakhauj tus tub hlob, thiab Xime‑oo, Levi, Yuda, Ixakha, thiab Xenpuloo. ²⁴Lachee cov tub yog Yauxej thiab Npeeyamee. ²⁵Lachee tus nkauj qhev Npiha cov tub yog Daj thiab Nathali. ²⁶Le‑a tus nkauj qhev Xilapa cov tub yog Kas thiab Asaw. Cov no yog Yakhauj cov tub uas yug ntawm Pada Alas.
²⁷Yakhauj rov los cuag nws txiv Yiha ntawm Male uas ze lub moos Khiliya Anpa (uas yog Heploo) yog lub chaw uas thaum ub Aplahas thiab Yiha txeev ua qhua nyob. ²⁸Yiha hnub nyoog muaj ib puas yim caum xyoo, ²⁹nws txojsia li tu. Nws nyob laus nkoos txog caij txog nyoog li tuag mus nrog nws tej poj koob yawm txwv nyob. Nws ob tug tub Exau thiab Yakhauj thiaj coj nws mus log.