1 Daarna het God vir Jakob gesê: Maak jou klaar, trek op na Bet-el en woon daar; en bou daar 'n altaar vir die God wat aan jou verskyn het toe jy op die vlug was vir jou broer Esau.
2 Toe sê Jakob aan sy huisgesin en aan almal wat by hom was: Verwyder die vreemde gode wat onder julle is, en reinig julle en trek ander klere aan;
3 en laat ons klaarmaak en optrek na Bet-el; en ek sal daar 'n altaar bou vir die God wat my geantwoord het op die dag van my benoudheid en by my was op die weg wat ek gegaan het.
4 Toe gee hulle aan Jakob al die vreemde gode wat in hulle besit was, en die ringe aan hulle ore, en Jakob het dit begrawe onder die terpentynboom wat by Sigem is.
5 En toe hulle weggetrek het, kom daar 'n skrik van God op die stede rondom hulle, sodat hulle die seuns van Jakob nie agternagejaag het nie.
6 So het Jakob dan in Lus aangekom wat in die land Kana„n is dit is Bet-el -- hy en al die mense wat by hom was.
7 en hy het daar 'n altaar gebou en die plek El Bet-el genoem, omdat God daar aan hom geopenbaar is toe hy vir sy broer gevlug het.
8 En Debora, die oppasser van Rebekka, het gesterwe, en sy is begrawe onderkant Bet-el, onder die eikeboom. En hulle het dit genoem: Eik van geween.
9 Toe verskyn God weer aan Jakob, by sy terugkoms uit Paddan-Aram, en Hy seën hom;
10 en God sê vir hom: Jou naam is Jakob; jy sal verder nie Jakob genoem word nie, maar Israel sal jou naam wees. En Hy het hom Israel genoem.
11 Verder sê God vir hom: Ek is God, die Almagtige. Wees vrugbaar en vermeerder. 'n Nasie, ja, 'n menigte van nasies, sal van jou afstam, en konings sal uit jou lendene voortkom.
12 En die land wat Ek aan Abraham en Isak gegee het, sal Ek aan jou gee; en aan jou nageslag n jou sal Ek die land gee.
13 Toe het God van hom af opgevaar op die plek waar Hy met hom gespreek het.
14 En Jakob het 'n gedenksteen opgerig op die plek waar Hy met hom gespreek het, 'n gedenksteen van klip, en daarop 'n drankoffer uitgegiet en olie daarop gegooi.
15 En Jakob het die plek waar God met hom gespreek het, Bet-el genoem.
16 Daarna het hulle van Bet-el af weggetrek. En toe daar nog 'n kort ent pad was om by Efrat te kom, moes Ragel baar; en sy het dit swaar gehad by die bevalling.
17 En terwyl sy dit swaar het by die bevalling, sê die vroedvrou vir haar: Wees nie bevrees nie, want dit is ook 'n seun vir u.
18 En toe haar siel uitgaan -- want sy het gesterwe -- noem sy hom Ben-Oni. Maar sy vader het hom Benjamin genoem.
19 So het Ragel dan gesterwe; en sy is begrawe op die pad na Efrat, dit is Betlehem.
20 En Jakob het 'n gedenksteen op haar graf opgerig; dit is die gedenkteken van die graf van Ragel tot vandag toe.
21 En Israel het weggetrek en sy tent opgeslaan aan die ander kant van Migdal-Eder.
22 En terwyl Israel in die land woon, het Ruben gegaan en met Bilha, sy vader se byvrou, gemeenskap gehad. En Israel het dit gehoor. En die seuns van Jakob was twaalf.
23 Die seuns van Lea was: Ruben, die eersgeborene van Jakob, daarna S¡meon en Levi en Juda en Issaskar en S,bulon.
24 Die seuns van Ragel: Josef en Benjamin.
25 En die seuns van Bilha, die slavin van Ragel: Dan en N ftali.
26 En die seuns van Silpa, die slavin van Lea: Gad en Aser. Dit is die seuns van Jakob wat vir hom in Paddan-Aram gebore is.
27 En Jakob het by sy vader Isak gekom in Mamre, by Kirjat-Arba, dit is Hebron, waar Abraham as vreemdeling vertoef het, en ook Isak.
28 En die dae van Isak was honderd en tagtig jaar.
29 En Isak het die asem uitgeblaas en gesterwe, en hy is by sy volksgenote versamel, oud en afgeleef. En sy seuns Esau en Jakob het hom begrawe.
1 And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.
2 Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:
3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.
4 Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
5 So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.
6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.
7 And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.
8 And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.
9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,
10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.
11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.
13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.
14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.
16 So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.
17 And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.
18 And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.
19 So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).
20 And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.
21 And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock.
22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.
23 Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;
26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.
27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
29 Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.