Genesis 35
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God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to b Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you c when you fled from your brother Esau."
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So Jacob said to his d household and to all who were with him, "Put away e the foreign gods that are among you and f purify yourselves and change your garments.
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Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God g who answers me in the day of my distress and h has been with me wherever I have gone."
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So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under i the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.
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And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
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And Jacob came to j Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because k there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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And l Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
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God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
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And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; m no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but n Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.
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And God said to him, o "I am God Almighty: be p fruitful and multiply. q A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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r The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."
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Then God s went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
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And Jacob t set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
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So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him u Bethel.
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Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
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And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for v you have another son."
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And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; w but his father called him Benjamin.
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So x Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to y Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
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and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is z the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.
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Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and a lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
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The sons of Leah: b Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali.
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The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at c Mamre, or d Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
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And Isaac breathed his last, and he died e and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And f his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
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Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.
Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Joshua 24:23
He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Exodus 19:10
The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments
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Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps.
Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
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Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
Judges 9:6
And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
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Genesis 24:59
So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:15
And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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Genesis 32:28
Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 28:3
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
Genesis 48:4
And said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.
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Genesis 17:5 - 6
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 17:22
When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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Genesis 28:18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!
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Luke 1:59 - 60
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
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Genesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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Ruth 1:2
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
Ruth 4:11
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Matthew 2:6
"'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
Matthew 2:16 - 18
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
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1 Samuel 10:2
When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it - he went up to my couch!
1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
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Genesis 35:23 - 26
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 46:8 - 27
Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Exodus 1:2 - 4
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:13
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -
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