Genesis 35–36

¹And God saith unto Jacob, ‘Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.’ ²And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, ‘Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.’ ⁴And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem; ⁵and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which are round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

⁶And Jacob cometh in to Luz which is in the land of Canaan (it is Bethel), he and all the people who are with him, ⁷and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother. ⁸And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name ‘Oak of weeping.’ ⁹And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him; ¹⁰and God saith to him, ‘Thy name is Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;’ and He calleth his name Israel. ¹¹And God saith to him, ‘I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out; ¹²and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac—to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.’ ¹³And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him. ¹⁴And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil; ¹⁵and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.

¹⁶And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; ¹⁷and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, ‘Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.’ ¹⁸And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin; ¹⁹and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem, ²⁰and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which is the standing pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

²¹And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar; ²²and it cometh to pass in Israel’s dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heareth. ²³And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob’s first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵And sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶And sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These are sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram. ²⁷And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned. ²⁸And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years, ²⁹and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

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¹And these are births of Esau, who is Edom. ²Esau hath taken his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Bashemath daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebajoth. ⁴And Adah beareth to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath hath born Reuel; ⁵and Aholibamah hath born Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. These are sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Esau taketh his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he hath acquired in the land of Canaan, and goeth into the country from the face of Jacob his brother; ⁷for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of their cattle; ⁸and Esau dwelleth in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

⁹And these are births of Esau, father of Edom, in mount Seir. ¹⁰These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz son of Adah, wife of Esau; Reuel son of Bashemath, wife of Esau. ¹¹And the sons of Eliphaz are Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz; ¹²and Timnath hath been concubine to Eliphaz son of Esau, and she beareth to Eliphaz, Amalek; these are sons of Adah wife of Esau. ¹³And these are sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah; these were sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. ¹⁴And these have been the sons of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, wife of Esau; and she beareth to Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. ¹⁵These are chiefs of the sons of Esau: sons of Eliphaz, first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek; these are chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these are sons of Adah. ¹⁷And these are sons of Reuel son of Esau: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah; these are chiefs of Reuel, in the land of Edom; these are sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. ¹⁸And these are sons of Aholibamah wife of Esau: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are chiefs of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, wife of Esau. ¹⁹These are sons of Esau (who is Edom), and these their chiefs.

²⁰These are sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, ²¹and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan; these are chiefs of the Horites, sons of Seir, in the land of Edom. ²²And the sons of Lotan are Hori and Heman; and a sister of Lotan is Timna. ²³And these are sons of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. ²⁴And these are sons of Zibeon, both Ajah and Anah: it is Anah that hath found the Imim in the wilderness, in his feeding the asses of Zibeon his father. ²⁵And these are sons of Anah: Dishon, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah. ²⁶And these are sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷These are sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸These are sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These are chiefs of the Horite: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, ³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are chiefs of the Horite in reference to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹And these are the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel. ³²And Bela son of Beor reigneth in Edom, and the name of his city is Dinhabah; ³³and Bela dieth, and reign in his stead doth Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah; ³⁴and Jobab dieth, and reign in his stead doth Husham from the land of the Temanite. ³⁵And Husham dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadad son of Bedad (who smiteth Midian in the field of Moab), and the name of his city is Avith; ³⁶and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah of Masrekah; ³⁷and Samlah dieth, and reign in his stead doth Saul from Rehoboth of the River; ³⁸and Saul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-hanan son of Achbor; ³⁹and Baal-hanan son of Achbor dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadar, and the name of his city is Pau; and his wife’s name is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-zahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, according to their places, by their names: chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, ⁴¹chief Aholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, ⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, ⁴³chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are chiefs of Edom, in reference to their dwellings, in the land of their possession; he is Esau father of Edom.

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