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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 moog rua Npe‑ee

¹Vaajtswv has rua Yakhauj has tas, “Ca le sawv tseeg tswv moog rua nraag Npe‑ee moog nyob nraag es tib ib lub thaaj rua tug Vaajtswv kws thau koj tswv koj tug tijlaug Exau es lug tshwm rua koj pum.” ²Vem le hov Yakhauj txhad has rua nwg tsev tuabneeg hab cov tuabneeg kws nrug nwg nyob ua ke suavdawg has tas, “Ca le muab lwm tebchaws tej daab kws mej coj tso pov tseg huvsw hab ua kevcai ntxuav lub cev lub sab kuas kaaj kuas huv hab hloov tsoog tsho huvsw. ³Peb ca le moog lawm nraag Npe‑ee mas kuv yuav tib ib lub thaaj rua ntawd rua tug Vaajtswv kws thau kuv raug kev txom nyem es nwg teb kuv hab nrug nraim kuv nyob rua txhua qhov chaw kws kuv tau moog.” ⁴Puab txawm muab lwm haiv tuabneeg tej daab qhuas kws puab coj hab muab puab tej puj cu⚓ kws puab coj ntawm qhov ntsej huvsw rua Yakhauj, tes Yakhauj txawm muab faus rua huv qaab tsob ntoo xeeb kws nyob ze lub moos Sekhee.
⁵Thaus puab tswv moog hov mas Vaajtswv ua rua tej zej zog thoob plawg huv tebchaws hov ntshai kawg le, puab txhad tsw caum Yakhauj cov tub qaab. ⁶Yakhauj hab nwg cov tuabneeg suavdawg lug txug ntawm Lu (kws yog Npe‑ee) kws nyob huv Khana‑aa tebchaws. ⁷Yakhauj txawm tib ib lub thaaj rua ntawd mas hu lub chaw hov ua Eenpe‑ee,⚓ vem yog lub chaw kws thau Yakhauj tswv nwg tug tijlaug es Vaajtswv lug tshwm rua nwg pum. ⁸Tug nkauj qhev Ntenpaula kws tu Lenpekha hlub txawm tuag mas puab muab nwg log rua huv qaab tsob ntoo xeeb nraag qaab Npe‑ee, mas txhad hu tsob ntoo hov ua Aaloo Npakhu.⚓
⁹Thaus Yakhauj tswv ntawm Panta Alaa rov lug Vaajtswv lug tshwm rua Yakhauj dua ib zag hab foom koob moov rua nwg. ¹⁰Vaajtswv has rua nwg tas, “Koj npe hu ua Yakhauj⚓ tassws yuav tsw hu koj ua Yakhauj dua le lawm, yuav hu koj ua Yixayee.”⚓ Yog le nuav txhad hu nwg ua Yixayee. ¹¹Hab Vaajtswv has rua Yakhauj tas, “Kuv yog Vaajtswv kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus.⚓ Koj ca le muaj tub ki fuam vaam coob coob. Muaj ib haiv tuabneeg yuav tshwm ntawm koj lug hab yuav muaj ntau haiv tuabneeg tshwm ntawm koj lug, yuav muaj tej vaajntxwv tshwm ntawm koj lug. ¹²Lub tebchaws kws kuv muab pub rua Aplahaa hab Yiha lawd kuv yeej yuav pub rua koj hab pub rua koj caaj ceg moog le.” ¹³Vaajtswv txawm tawm ntawm lub chaw kws nrug Yakhauj thaam moog lawm. ¹⁴Yakhauj txawm txhus ib tug ncej zeb ca rua ntawm lub chaw kws Vaajtswv nrug nwg has lug hab nwg muab cawv txwv maab laub ywg ua kevcai laub xyeem rua sau tug ncej hab muab roj laub ywg tug ncej hov. ¹⁵Yakhauj hu lub chaw kws Vaajtswv nrug nwg has lug ntawd ua Npe‑ee.⚓

Lachee hab Yiha tuag

¹⁶Puab tswv ntawm Npe‑ee moog tsw tau txug Efatha tes Lachee txawm ua mob teb heev yug mivnyuas nyuaj heev. ¹⁷Thaus nwg saamswm mob heev tug quaspuj kws paab yug mivnyuas has rua Lachee tas, “Koj tsw xob ntshai, koj tub tau dua ib tug mivtub lawm.” ¹⁸Thaus nwg yuav tu sav yuav tuag hov nwg tis tug mivtub hov npe hu ua Npee‑auni⚓ kuas nwg txwv tis npe hu ua Npeeyamee.⚓ ¹⁹Tes Lachee txawm tuag lawm, mas puab muab nwg log rua ntawm ntug kev kws moog rua nraag lub zog Efatha (kws yog Npelehee). ²⁰Yakhauj muab ib tug ncej zeb txhus rua ntawm lub ntxaa. Tug ncej ntawm Lachee lub ntxaa mas nyob lug txug naj nub nwgnuav.
²¹Yixayee kuj tswv rua tom ntej, moog tsaa tsev ntaub nyob dhau plhawv lub chaw tsom faaj Entaw. ²²Thaus Yixayee nyob rua huv lub tebchaws hov Lunpee txawm moog nrug nwg txwv tug nam yau Npiha pw. Yixayee kuj nov txug qhov hov hab.
Yakhauj muaj kaum ob tug tub. ²³Le‑a cov tub yog Lunpee kws yog Yakhauj tug tub hlub, hab Xime‑oo, Levi, Yuta, Ixakha, hab Xenpuloo. ²⁴Lachee cov tub yog Yauxej hab Npeeyamee. ²⁵Lachee tug nkauj qhev Npiha cov tub yog Ntaaj hab Nathali. ²⁶Le‑a tug nkauj qhev Xilapa cov tub yog Kas hab Asaw. Cov nuav yog Yakhauj cov tub kws yug ntawm Panta Alaa.
²⁷Yakhauj rov lug cuag nwg txwv Yiha ntawm Maale kws ze lub moos Khiliya Anpa (kws yog Heploo) yog lub chaw kws thau u Aplahaa hab Yiha txeev ua qhua nyob. ²⁸Yiha noob nyoog muaj ib puas yim caum xyoo, ²⁹nwg txujsa le tu. Nwg nyob laug quas nkoog txug caij txug nyoog le tuag moog nrug nwg tej laug nyob. Nwg ob tug tub Exau hab Yakhauj txhad coj nwg moog log.