Genesis chapter .xxxv.
¶ And God said unto Iacob, arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother.
Then said Iacob unto his household and to all that were with him, put away the strange gods that are among you and make your selves clean, and change your garments,
and let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there, unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation and was with me in the way which I went.
And they gave unto Iacob all the strange gods which were under their hands, and all their earings which were in their ears, and Iacob hid them under an oak at Sichem.
And they departed. And the fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst not follow after the sons of Iacob.
¶ So came Iacob to Lus in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him.
And he builded there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.
Then died Debora Rebecca's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
And God appeared unto Iacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him
and said unto him: Thy name is Iacob. Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Iacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And so was his name called Israel.
And God said unto him: I am God allmighty, grow and multiply: for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee, yea and kings shall come out of thy loins.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, will I give unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee will I give it also.
And God departed from him in the place where he talked with him.
And Iacob set up a mark in the place where he talked with him: even a pillar of stone, and poured drink offering thereon and poured also oil thereon,
and called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
¶ And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field brede from Ephrath, Rahel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril.
And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her: fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Ben Oni. But his father called him Ben Iamin.
and thus died Rahel and was buried in the way to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem.
And Iacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rahel's grave pillar unto this day.
¶ And Israel went thence and pitched up his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
And it chanced as Israel dwelt in that land, that Ruben went and lay with Bilha his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Iacob were twelve in number.
The sons of Lea: Ruben, Iacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Iuda, Isachar, and Zabulon.
The sons of Rahel: Ioseph and Ben Iamin.
The sons of Bilha Rahel's maid: Dan and Nephtali.
The sons of Zilpha Lea's maid Gad and Asser. These are the sons which were born him in Mesopotamia.
Then Iacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and eighty years:
and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Iacob buried him.
Praise the Everlasting Lord for His Faithful Word.