In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

²And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

³Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.

⁴So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

⁵And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

⁶And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

⁷And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

⁸At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

⁹And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

¹⁰Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

¹¹And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

¹²And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

¹³And he departed from him.

¹⁴But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

¹⁵And calling the name of that place Bethel.

¹⁶And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

¹⁷By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

¹⁸And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

¹⁹So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

²⁰And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel’s monument, to this day.

²¹Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

²²And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.

²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵The sons of Bala, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.

²⁶The sons of Zelpha, Lia’s handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

²⁷And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

²⁸And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

²⁹And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Chapter 36

And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

²Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon the Hevite:

³And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.

⁴And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.

⁵Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of Esau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.

⁶And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.

⁷For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

⁸And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.

⁹And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.

¹⁰And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the wife of Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.

¹¹And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.

¹²And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.

¹³And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

¹⁴And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core.

¹⁵These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,

¹⁶Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.

¹⁷And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath, duke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in the land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

¹⁸And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus, duke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife of Esau.

¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same is Edom.

²⁰These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,

²¹And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.

²²And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.

²³And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Onam.

²⁴And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon, his father:

²⁵And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.

²⁶And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and Jethram, and Charan.

²⁷These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.

²⁸And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.

²⁹These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon, duke Ana,

³⁰Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land of Seir.

³¹And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

³²Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.

³³And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in his stead.

³⁴And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites, reigned in his stead.

³⁵And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his stead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Boab; and the name of his city was Avith.

³⁶And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of Masreca.

³⁷And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his stead.

³⁸And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor, succeeded to the kingdom.

³⁹This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.

⁴⁰And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,

⁴¹Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,

⁴²Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,

⁴³Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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