Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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God Blesses Jacob at Bethel
1 God said to Jacob, “Go to
Bethel at once, and live there.
Build an altar there to me, the God
who appeared to you when you were
running away from your brother
Esau.” note
2 So Jacob said to his family and
to all who were with him, “Get rid of
the foreign gods that you have; purify
yourselves and put on clean
clothes.
3 We are going to leave here
and go to Bethel, where I will build
an altar to the God who helped me in
the time of my trouble and who has
been with me everywhere I have
gone.”
4 So they gave Jacob all the
foreign gods that they had and also
the earrings that they were wearing.
He buried them beneath the oak tree
near Shechem.
5 When Jacob and his sons started
to leave, great fear fell on the people
of the nearby towns, and they did
not pursue them.
6 Jacob came with
all his people to Luz, which is now
known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7 He built an altar there and
named the place for the God of
Bethel, because God had revealed
himself to him there when he was
running away from his brother.
8 Rebecca's
nurse Deborah died and was
buried beneath the oak south of
Bethel. So it was named “Oak of
Weeping.”
9 When Jacob returned from
Mesopotamia, God appeared to him
again and blessed him.
10 God said to
him, “Your name is Jacob, but from
now on it will be Israel.” So God
named him Israel. note
11 And God said to
him, “I am Almighty God. Have
many children. Nations will be descended
from you, and you will be
the ancestor of kings.
12 I will give
you the land which I gave to Abraham
and to Isaac, and I will also give
-- --
it to your descendants after you.” note
13 Then God left him.
14 There, where
God had spoken to him, Jacob set up
a memorial stone and consecrated it
by pouring wine and olive oil on it.
15 He named the place Bethel. note
The Death of Rachel
16 Jacob and his family left Bethel,
and when they were still some distance
from Ephrath, the time came
for Rachel to have her baby, and she
was having difficult labor.
17 When
her labor pains were at their worst,
the midwife said to her, “Don't be
afraid, Rachel; it's another boy.”
18 But she was dying, and as she
breathed her last, she named her son
Benoni, note but his father named him
Benjamin. note
19 When Rachel died, she was buried
beside the road to Ephrath, now
known as Bethlehem.
20 Jacob set up
a memorial stone there, and it still
marks Rachel's grave to this day.
21 Jacob moved on and set up his
camp on the other side of the tower
of Eder.
The Sons of Jacob
(1 Chronicles 2.1–2).
22 While Jacob was living in that
land, Reuben had sexual intercourse
with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines;
Jacob heard about it and
was furious. note
22 Jacob had twelve sons. note
23 The sons
of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest
son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar,
and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel
were Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The
sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were
Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of
Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and
Asher. These sons were born in
Mesopotamia.
The Death of Isaac
27 Jacob went to his father Isaac at
Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham
and Isaac had lived. note
28 Isaac
lived to be a hundred and eighty
years old
29 and died at a ripe old
age; and his sons Esau and Jacob
buried him.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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