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Chap. xxx. this alla, for the fervice which thou shalt ferve with me yet feven other years.

28 And Jacob did fo, and fulfilled her wek: and he gave him kachel his daughter to wit allo.

ży And Laban gave to Rachel his daugh. ter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. 30 And he went in alfo unto Rachel, and be loved ao Rachel more than Leah, and ferved with him yet feven other years.

31 And when the LORD faw that Leah * hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel tour barren.

32 And Leah conceived, and bare a fon, and the called his name Reuben: for the faid, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my afiction; now, therefore, my husband will love me.

33 And the conceived again, and bare a fon; and faid, Becale the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this fox allo: and the called his name Simeon.

34 And he conceived again, and bare a fon; and fald, Now this time will my husband be Joined unto me, becaufe I have born hun three fons: therefore was his name called Levi.

35 And the conceived again, and bare a fon; and the faid, Now will I praife the LORD: therefore the called his name Judah, and left bearing.

CHAP. XXX. || Rachel'sbartenness: 22 fhe beareth Joseph, 27 Jacob's new covenant with Laban: 37 bis policy to become rich.

AND when Rachel faw that the bare facob no children, Rachel envied her fiffer; and faid unto jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was kindled againft Rachel; and he faid, Am I in God's tead, Who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb!

3 And the faid, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and the thall bear upon my knees, that I may alfo have children by her. 4 And the gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her.

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6 And Rachel faid, God hath judged me, and hath alfo heard my voice, and hath given me a fon: therefore called the his name Dan.

7 And Billah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bare Jacob a fecond fon.

8 And Rachel faid, with great wrestlings have I wreitled with my fitter, and I have prevailed and the called his name Naphtali. 9 When Leah faw that the had left bear ing, the took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

10 Aud Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob

fon.

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11 And Leak faid, A troop cometh; and

the called his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a fecond fon.

13 And Leah faid, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me bleiled: and the called his name Alber.

14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat-harveft, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel faid to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy fou's mandrakes.

She beareth Jofeph.

15 And the faid unto her, Is it a small matter that thou haft taken my husband? and woulded thou take away my fon's mandrakes alfo? And Rachel faid, Therefore he thall lie with thee to-night for thy lon's mandrakes.

16 And Jacob ame out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and faid, Thou must come in unto me: for furely I have hired thee with my fon's man drakes. And he lay with her that night. 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and the conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth fon.

18 And Leah faid, God hath given me mine hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and the called his name fachar. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the fixch fon.

20 And Leah faid, God hath endowed me with a good dowry: now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him fix fons: and the called his name Zebulun.

21 And afterwards the bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

22¶ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 23 And the conceived and bare a fon; and faid, God hath taken away my reproach.

24 And the called his name Jofeph; and faid, The LORD thall add to me another fon,

25 And it came to pafs, when Rachel had borne Jofeph, that Jacob faid unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have ferved thee, and let me go: for thou knoweit my service which I have done thee.

27 And Laban faid unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience, that the LORD, hath bleffed me for thy fake.

28 Aud he faid, Appoint me thy wages, and I will giv viz.

29 And he faid unto him, Thou knoweft how I have ferved thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

30 For it was little which thou hadst be. fore I came, and it is now increafed unto a multitude; and the LORD hath bleffed thee fince my coming: and now, when thall I provide for mine own house alfo?

31 And he faid, What thall I give : hee? And Jacob faid, Thou shalt not give me any thing. If thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

32 I will pafs through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and (potted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the (potted and fpeckled among the goats; and of such thall be my hire.

33 So thall my righteoufnefs anĺwer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face; every one that is not fpeckled and fpotted among the goats, and brown among the theep, that thall be accountea ftolen with me,

34 And Laban faid, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-streaked and potted, and all the fhe-goats that were fpeckled and spotted, and every one that had fome white in it, and all the brown among the theep, and gave them into the hands on is fons.

36 And he fet three days' journey bet i

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Jacob departeth from Laban. GENESI 8. himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rent of Laban's flocks.

37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chefnut tree, and pilled white frakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38 Aud he fet the rods which he had pill. ed before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs, when the flocks came to drink, that they thould conceive when they came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, Speckled, and spotted.

40 And Jacob did feparate the lambs, and fet the faces of the flocks toward the ringfraked, and all the brown in the flock of 1.aban: and he put his own flocks by themfelves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 41 And it came to pafs, whenfoever the fronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods beiore the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: fo the feebler were Laban's, and the fronger Jacob's.

43 And the man increafed exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maid-fervants, and men-fervants, and camels, and affes.

CHAP. XXXI.

Jacob departeth from Laban: 22 Laban pur. Jueth him: 44 their covenant at Galeed. AND he heard the word of Laban's fons, faying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him Bs before.

3 And the LORD faid unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kin. dred; and I will be with thee.

4 And Jacob fent and called Rachel and Jeah to the field unto his flock,

5 And faid unto them, I fee your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before: but the God of my father hath been with me.

6 And ye know, that with all my power I have ferved your father.

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God fuf. fered him not to hurt me.

8 If he faid thus, The fpeckled fhall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare fpeckled: and if he faid thus, The ringftraked thall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

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9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10 And it came to pafs, at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and faw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringitraked, freckled, and grifled.

II And the angel of God fpake unto me in a dream, faying, Jacob. And I faid Here amI. 12 And he faid, Lift up now thine eyes and fee, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, fpeckled, and grifled: for I have feen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou a nointed the pillar, and where thou vowedit

Laban purfueth him.

a yow unto me: now arife, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

14 And Rachel and Leah answered and faid unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

15 Are we not counted of him flrangers? for he hath fold us, and hath quite devoured alfo our money.

16 For all the riches which God hath t ken from our father, that is our's, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath faid unto thee, do.

17 Then Jacob rofe up, and fet his fon and his wives upon camels:

18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cat tle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Ifaac his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to thear his sheep, and Rachel had ftolen the images that were her father's.

20 And Jacob ftole away unawares to La ban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rofe up, and paffed over the river, and fet his face toward the mount Gilead.

22 And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fed.

23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him feven days jour

ney; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and faid unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the

mount of Gilead.

26 And Laban faid to Jacob, What haft thou done, that thou hart itolen away una wares to me, and carried away my daugh. ters as captives taken with the fword?

27 Wheretore didft thou flee away fecret ly, and fteal away from me, and didit not tell me, that I might have fent thee away with mirth and with fongs, with tabret and with harp;

28 And hait not fuffered me to kifs my foolishly in so doing. fons and my daughters? Thou haft now done

hurt: but the God of your father spake unto 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you me yeternight, faying, Take thou heed that thou fpeak not to Jacob either good or bad.

so And now though thou wouldeft needs be gone, becaufe thou fore longedit atter thy father's boufe; yet wherefore haft thou stolen my gods?

Because I was afraid: for I faid, Peradven
31 And Jacob answered and faid to Laban,
ters from me.
ture thou wouldeft take by force thy daugh

let him not live: before our brethren difcern
32 With whom foeverthou findcft thy gods,
thou what is thine with me,-and take if t
thee. For Jacob knew net that Rachel
had ftolen them.

into Leah's tent, and into the two maid-fee 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and vaats tents; but he found them not. The

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Their covenant at Galeed.

Chap. xxx!!.

went be out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachels tent.

14 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and fat up. en them. And Laban fearched all the tent, but found them pot.

And he faid to her father, Let it not difpleafe my lord that I cannot rife up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And be fearched, but found not the images. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban, and Jacob anfwered and fail to Laban, What is my trefpafs, what is my fin, that thou haft fo hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hart fearched all my ful, what hatt thou found of all thy houfhold fof? Set it here before my brethren

end thy brethren, that they may judge be.

twixt us both.

38 These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy the-goats have not caft their young, and the rams of thy flock have I cot eaten.

39 That which was torn of beafts I brought not unto thee; I bare the lofs of it: of my band did thou require it whether ftolen by day, or ftolen by night.

40 That I was, in the day the drought con. famed me, and the froft by night; and my feep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy houfe: 1 ferved thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and fix years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 44 Except the God of my father, the Cod of Abraham, and the fear of Ifaac, had been with me, furely thou hadft fent me away now empty: God hath feen my affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yeternight.

43 And Laban answered and faid unto Jacab, Thefe daughters are my daughters, and thefe children are my children, and thefe cat tle are my cattle, and all that thou feet is mine; and what can I do this day unto thefe my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne!

44 Now therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witnefs between die and thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and fet it up for a pillar.

46 And Jacob faid unto his brethren, Gather tones: and they took ftones, and made an heap; and they did eat there up on the heap.

47 And Laban called it Jegar-fahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 And Laban faid, This heap is a witnefs between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

49 And Mizpah: for he faid, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are

abfent one from another.

so I thou thalt afli my daughters, or if then that take orber wives befides my daugh ters, no man is with us; fee, God is witnefs betwixt me and thee.

53 And Laban faid to facob, Behold this, heap, and behold this pillar, which I have

call betwixt me and thee:

$ This heap be witnefs, and this pill be witnefs, that I will not pa's over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pafs over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

Jacob's prefent to Efau.

53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge be twixt us. And Jacob fware by the car of his father Ifaac.

54 Then Jacob offered facrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the morning I aban rofe up, and kiffed his fons and his daughters, and bleffed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. CHAP. XXXII. 1Jacob's vision at Mahanaim : 3 his message to Ffau: 13 his prefent to Efau: 24 wreftling with an angel, he is called Ifrael. AND Jacob went on his way, and the an

gels of God met him.

2 And when Jacob faw them, he faid, This is God's hoft: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3 And Jacob fent meffengers before him to Efau his brother, unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus fhall ye fpeak unto my lord Efau; Thy fervant Jacob faith thus, I have fojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

5 And I have oxen, and affes, Aocks, and men-fervants, and women-fervants: and I have fent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy fight.

6And the mesengers returned to Jacob, faying, We came to thy brother Efau, and alfo he cometh to meet thee, and four humdred men with him.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and dif treifed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

8 And faid, If Efau come to the one company, and fmite it, then the other company which is left thall efcape.

y And Jacob faid, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Ifaac, the LORD which faidft unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

10 I am not worthy of leath of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou haft thewed unto thy fervant: for with my ftaff I paffed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.

II Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Efau: for I fear him, left he will come and fmite me, and the mother with the children.

12 And thou faidft, I willfurelydo thee good, and make thy feed as the fand of the fea,which cannot be numbered for multitude.

13 And he lodged there that fame night; and took of that which came to his hand, a present for Efau his brother:

14 Two hundred the-goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty the-affes,

and ten foals.

16 And he delivered them into the hand of his fervants, every drove by themfelves; and faid unto his fervants, Pafs over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost, faying, When Efau my brother meeteth thee. and asketh thee, faying, Whole art thou?

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acob's and Efaw's kind meeting. and whither goest thou? and whofe are thefe before thee?

18 Then thou shalt fay, They be thy fervant Jacob's; it is a prefent fent unto my lord Efau and, behold, alfo he is behind us.

19 And fo commanded he the fecond, and the third, and all that followed the droves, faying, On this manner hall ye fpeak unto Efau, when ye find him.

20 And fay ye moreover, Behold, thy fervant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appeafe him with the prefent that goeth before me, and afterward I will fee his face; peradventure he will accept of me

21 So went the prefent over before him: and himfeli lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rofe up that night, and took his two wives, and his two won.en-fervants, and his eleven fons, and paffed over the ford Jabbok.

23 And he took them, and fent them over the brook, and fent over that he had.

24 And Jacob was left alone: and there wreftled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

25 And when he faw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out joint as he wreftied with him.

26 Ara he faid, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he faid, I will not let thee go, except thou blefs me.

27 And he faid unto him, What is thy name? And he faid, Jacob.

28 And he aid, Thy name fhall be called no more jacob, but frael: for as a prince haft thou power with God and with men, and haft prevailed.

29 And Jacob asked him, and faid, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he faid, Wherefore is it that thou deft ask after my name? And he bieffed him there.

30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: tor I have feen God face to face, and my life is preferved.

31 And as he paired over Penuel the fun rofe upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Ifrael eat not of the finewl hrank, which is upon the hollow of the gh, unto this day; becaufe he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the finew that drank.

CHAP. XXXII. The kindness of Jacob and Efau at their meeting. 18 Jacob buyeth a field at Shalem, and builde'h an altar.

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ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,

and, behold, Efau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the chil. dren unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremoft, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Jofeph hindermott.

3 And he paffed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground feven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 And Efau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and killed him and they wept.

5 And he lifted up his eyes, and faw the women, and the children, and faid, Who are thofe with thee? And he faid, The children which God hath graciously given thy fervant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near, they

Dinab ravibed,

and their children, and they bowed them. felves.

7 And Leah alfo with her children came near, and bowed themfelves: and after came Jofeph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

And he faid, What meaneft thou by all this drove which 1 met? And he faid, Thefe are to find grace in the fight of my lord. 9 And Efau faid, I have enough, my bro. ther; keep that thou hatt unto thy felf.

10 An Jacobfaid, Nay, I pray thee; if now I have found grace in thy fight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have feen thy face, as though I had feen the face of God, and thou waft pleased with me.

11 Take, I pray thee, my bleifing that is brought to thee; becaufe God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. 12 And he faid, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him, My lord know eth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me; and if men thould over-drive them one day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pafs over be fore his fervant: and I will lead on fortly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

15 And Efau faid, Let me now leave with thee fome or the folk that are with me. And he faid, What needeth it? Let me find grace in the light of my lord.

16 So Efau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, ard built him an houfe, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

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And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram, and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and call ed it El-elohe-Ifrael.

CHAP. XXXIV. Dinah ravibed. 20 The Shechemites are circumcifed, 25 flain by the fans of Jacob, 27 and their city spoiled.

the bare unfo Jacob, went out to fee ND Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which the daughters of the land.

2 And when Shechem, the fon of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, faw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

3 And his foul clave unto Dinah the daugh ter of Jacob; and he loved the damfel, and fpake kindly unto the damfel.

4 And Shechem spake unto his father Ha mor, faying, Get me this damfel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Di nah his daughter, (now his fons were with his cattle in the field,) and Jacob held hi peace until they were come.

And Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob, to conmune with him. 7 And the fons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard i; and the men were

The Shechemites ßain.

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ters unto you.

10 Aad ye thall dwell with us: and the land fall be before you: dwell and trade ye therein, and get you poffeffions therein. 11 And Shechem faid unto her father, and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye thall fay unto me I will give.

12 Afk me never fo much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye thall fay unto me: but give me the damfel to wife.

13 And the fous of Jacob anfwered Shethem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and faid (because he had defiled Dinah their fifer,) 14 And they laid unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our fifter to one that is uneircumcifed: for that were a reproach un.

to us.

15 But in this will we confent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcifed;

16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be come one people.

17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcifed; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

18 And their words pleafed Hamor, and

Shechem Hamor's fon.

19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than

all the house of his father.

20 And Hamor and Shechem his fon came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, faying,

21 These men are peaceable with us, there. fore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large e. nough for them: let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

22 Only herein will the men confent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcifed, as they are circumcifed.

23 shall not their cattle, and their fub ftance, and every beaft of their's, be our's? Only let us confent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his fon, hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and every male was circumcifed, all that went out of the gate of his city.

25 And it came to pafs on the third day, When they were fore, that two of the fons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his fword, and came upon the city boldly, and flew all the males.

26 And they flew Hamor and Shechem his fon with the edge of the fword, and took DiBah out of Shechem's houfe, and went out. 37 The fons of Jacob came upon the Dain,

Jacob fent to Beth-gl and fpoiled the city: because they had defled their fifter.

28 They took their theep, and their oxen, and their affes, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field.

29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, took they captive, and fpoiled even all that was in house.

30 And Jacob faid to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me to ftink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites, and the Perizzites; and I being few in number, they fhall gather them. felves together against me, and tlay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31 And they faid, Should he deal with our fifter as with an harlot?

CHAP. XXXV.

1 Godfendeth Jacob in Bethel: 2 he purge th
bis boufe of idols, 6 and buildeth an altar
at Beth-cl. 28 ifaac's death.

AND God faid unto Jacob, Arife, go up
to Bethel, and dwell there; and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared un-
to thee when thou Aeddeft from the face of
Efau thy brother.

2 Then Jacob faid unto his houthold, and
to all that were with him:, Put away the
firange gods that are among you, and be
clean, and change your garaients:

3 And let us arife, and go up to Beth-el: and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the ftrange gods which were in their hand, and all their ear-rings which were in their ears: and Ja cob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not purfue after the fons of jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, (that is Beth-el,) he, and all the people that were with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; becaufe there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 But Deborah, Rebekah's nurfe, died, and fhe was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-arani, and bless ed him.

10 And God faid unto him, Thy name is Ja. cob: thy name thall not be called any more Jacob, but Ifrael thall be thy name; and he called his name Ifrael.

11 And God faid unto him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful, and multiply: a nation, and a company of nations, shall be of thee; and kings ihall come out of thy loins:

12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Ifaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy feed after thee will I give the land.

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

14 And Jacob fet up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of ftone; and he poured a drink-offering there. on, and he poured oil thereon.

15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God pake with him, Beth-cl. B3

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