Chapter 35

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AND Elohiym said unto El-Ya`aqov, Arise, go up to Beyt-El, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto Elohiym, that appeared unto you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.

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Then Ya`aqov said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange elohai that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

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And let us arise, and go up to Beyt-El; and I will make there an altar unto Elohiym, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

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And they gave unto El-Ya`aqov את all the strange elohai which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Ya`aqov hid them under the oak which was by Shekem.

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And they journeyed: and the terror of Elohiym was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Ya`aqov.

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So Ya`aqov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kena`an, that is, Beyt-El, he and all the people that were with him.

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And he built there an altar, and called the place El Beyt-El: because there Elohiym appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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But Deborah Rivqah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beyt-El under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon Bakuth.

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And Elohiym appeared unto El-Ya`aqov again, when he came out of Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

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And Elohiym said unto him, Your name is Ya`aqov: your name shall not be called anymore Ya`aqov, but Yashar'el shall be your name: and he called his name Yashar'el.

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And Elohiym said unto him, I am El Shaddai: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of your loins;

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And the land which I gave Avraham and Yitschaq, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you will I give the land.

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And Elohiym went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

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And Ya`aqov set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

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And Ya`aqov called the name of the place where Elohiym spoke with him, Beyt-El.

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And they journeyed from Beyt-El; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrathah: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

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And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; you shall have this son also.

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And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-Oniy: but his father called him Binyamiyn.

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And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrathah, which is Beyt Lechem.

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And Ya`aqov set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

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And Yashar'el journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-Eder.

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And it came to pass, when Yashar'el dwelt in that land, that Re'uven went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Yashar'el heard it. Now the sons of Ya`aqov were twelve:

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The sons of Le'ah; Re'uven, Ya`aqov's firstborn, and Shim`on, and Leviy, and Yahudah, and Yisshakar, and Zevulun:

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The sons of Rachel; Yoceph, and Binyamiyn:

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And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtaliy:

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And the sons of Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Ya`aqov, which were born to him in Paddan Aram.

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And Ya`aqov came unto El-Yitschaq his father unto Mamre, unto Qiryat Arba, which is Chevron, where Avraham and Yitschaq sojourned.

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And the days of Yitschaq were a hundred and fourscore years.

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And Yitschaq gave up his ruach, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Ya`aqov buried him.



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