A   And God sayde vnto Iacob, aryse and get þe; vp to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an aulter vnto God that apeared vnto the, ^note when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Than sayde Iacob vnto hys housholde and to all that were wyth hym: &rhand; put awaye the straunge goddes that are am&obar;ge you and be cleane, and cha&ubar;ge youre Iacob garmentes, for we wyll aryse and goo vp to Bethell and I wyll make an aulter there, vnto God, which herde me in the daye of my tribulacyon, and was with me in the waye which I went.

And they gaue vnto Iacob all the stra&ubar;ge goddes which they had in their h&abar;de, and all their earinges which were in their eares, ∧ Iacob hyd th&ebar; vnder an ooke whych was by Sichem. And whan they departed, the feare of God fell vpon the cyties that were rounde aboute them. And they dyd not folowe after the sonnes of Iacob. So came Iacob to Lus which is in the lande of Canaan. B   The same is Bethell, he ∧ all the people that was with him. And he buylded there an aulter, and called þe; place: The God of Bethell, because that God appered vnto hym there, when he fled from the face of his brother.

But ^note Debora Rebeccas norse, dyed, ∧ was buryed beneth Bethell vnder an ooke. And the name of it was called: the ooke of lamentacyon. And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia and blessed hym, and God sayde vnto him: thy name is Iacob. Notwythstondinge thou shalt be no more called ^note Iacob, but Israel shalbe thy name. And he called hys name Israel.

And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmyghtye, growe and multiplye, people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the, yee and kynges shall come out of thy loynes. And the lande whych I gaue Abraham and Isahac, will I geue vnto the, and vnto thy seed after the will I geue that l&abar;de also: And so God departed vp from hym in the place where he had talked wyth hym. And Iacob set vp a marke in the place where he talked with hym: euen a marke of stone and powred &rhand; dryncke offrynge theron, ∧ powred also oyle theron, and Iacob called the name of þe; place where God spake with hym ^note Bethell.

C   And they departed from Bethel, and wh&ebar; he was but a felde bredth fr&obar; Ephrath, Rahel began to trauell, and in trauelynge she was in parell. And it happened as she was in paynes of hyr laboure, the mydwyfe sayde vnto her, feare not, for thys sonne is thyne also. Then as hyr soule was a departynge, þt; she ^note must dye, she called his name. Ben Oni. (the sonne of my sorowe.) But hys father called hym Ben Iamin. (The sonne of the ryght hande.) And thus dyed Rahel and was buryed in the waye to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And Iacob sett vp a stone vp&obar; hir graue, which is called Rahels graue stone vnto thys daye. And Israel went thence, ∧ pytched vp hys tent beyonde the ^note toure of Eder. And it chaunced as Israel dwelt in the lande, that Ruben went and

Iacob laye ^note wyth Bilha hys fathers concubyne, and it came to Israels eare. The sonnes of Iacob were .xij. in nombre. The sonnes of Lea. Ruben Iacobs eldest sonne, and Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, and Zabulon. The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph and Ben Iamin. The sonnes of Bilha Rahels mayde: Dan and Neptali. The sonnes of Zilpha Leaes mayde, Gad and Aser. These are the sonnes of Iacob whych were borne hym in Mesopotamia.

And so Iacob came vnto Isahar hys father to Mamre vnto kyriath Arba which is Hebron: where Abraham ∧ Isahac soiourned as straungers. And the dayes of Isahac were an hundred and .lxxx. yeres: ∧ Isahac fell sycke and dyed, and was put vnto hys people, beynge olde and full of dayes. And his sonnes Esau and Iacob buryed him.

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