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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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上帝在伯特利賜福雅各
1上帝對雅各說：「起來！上伯特利去，住在那裏。在那裏築一座壇給上帝，就是你逃避你哥哥以掃的時候向你顯現的上帝。」
2雅各就對他家中的人，以及所有和他一起的人說：「除掉你們中間外邦的神明，要自潔，更換衣服。
3我們要起來，上伯特利去，在那裏我要築一座壇給上帝，就是在我遭難的日子應允我，在我行走的路上與我同在的上帝。」
4他們就把手中所有外邦的神明和自己耳朵上的環子交給雅各；雅各把它們埋在示劍那裏的橡樹下。
5他們起行。上帝使周圍城鎮的人都驚恐，就不追趕雅各的兒子們了。
6於是雅各和所有與他一起的人到了迦南地的路斯，就是伯特利。
7他在那裏築了一座壇，給那地方起名叫伊勒‧伯特利⚓，因為他逃避他哥哥的時候，上帝曾在那裏向他顯現。
8利百加的奶媽底波拉死了，葬在伯特利下邊的橡樹下；那棵樹名叫亞倫‧巴古。
9雅各從巴旦‧亞蘭回來，上帝又向他顯現，賜福給他。
10上帝對他說：「你的名原是雅各，從今以後不要再叫雅各，你的名要叫以色列。」於是，上帝就叫他的名為以色列。
11上帝又對他說：「我是全能的上帝；你要生養眾多，將來有一國和許多的國從你而來，又有許多君王從你生出⚓。
12至於我賜給亞伯拉罕和以撒的地，我必賜給你；我必賜這地給你的後裔。」
13上帝就從與雅各說話的那地方升上去了。
14雅各就在上帝與他說話的地方立了一根柱子，就是石柱，在它上面獻澆酒祭，又澆油。
15雅各就給上帝與他說話的那地方起名叫伯特利。
拉結去世
16他們從伯特利起行，到以法他還有一段路程，拉結生產，生得十分艱難。
17她生得十分艱難的時候，接生婆對她說：「不要怕，你又要有一個兒子了。」
18她快要死，還有一口氣的時候，就給她兒子起名叫便‧俄尼⚓；他父親卻給他起名叫便雅憫⚓。
19拉結死了，葬在往以法他的路旁；以法他就是伯利恆。
20雅各在她的墳上立了一塊碑，就是拉結的墓碑，到今日還在。
21以色列起行，在以得臺的那一邊支搭帳棚。
雅各的兒子們
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22以色列住在那地的時候，呂便去與他父親的妾辟拉同寢，以色列也聽見了這件事⚓。
雅各共有十二個兒子。
23利亞的兒子是雅各的長子呂便，還有西緬、利未、猶大、以薩迦、西布倫。
24拉結的兒子是約瑟、便雅憫。
25拉結的婢女辟拉的兒子是但、拿弗他利。
26利亞的婢女悉帕的兒子是迦得、亞設。這是雅各在巴旦‧亞蘭所生的兒子。
以撒的死
27雅各來到他父親以撒那裏，到了幔利，基列‧亞巴，就是希伯崙，是亞伯拉罕和以撒寄居的地方。
28以撒共活了一百八十年。
29以撒年紀老邁，安享天年，息勞而終，歸到他祖先⚓那裏。他兩個兒子以掃和雅各把他安葬了。