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.

1 Interea locutus est Deus ad Jacob : Surge, et ascende Bethel, et habita ibi, facque altare Deo qui apparuit tibi quando fugiebas Esau fratrem tuum. 2 Jacob vero convocata omni domo sua, ait : Abjicite deos alienos qui in medio vestri sunt, et mundamini, ac mutate vestimenta vestra. 3 Surgite, et ascendamus in Bethel, ut faciamus ibi altare Deo : qui exaudivit me in die tribulationis me, et socius fuit itineris mei. 4 Dederunt ergo ei omnes deos alienos quos habebant, et inaures qu erant in auribus eorum : at ille infodit ea subter terebinthum, qu est post urbem Sichem. 5 Cumque profecti essent, terror Dei invasit omnes per circuitum civitates, et non sunt ausi persequi recedentes. 6 Venit igitur Jacob Luzam, qu est in terra Chanaan, cognomento Bethel : ipse et omnis populus cum eo. 7 dificavitque ibi altare, et appellavit nomen loci illius, Domus Dei : ibi enim apparuit ei Deus cum fugeret fratrem suum. 8 Eodem tempore mortua est Debora nutrix Rebecc, et sepulta est ad radices Bethel subter quercum : vocatumque est nomen loci illius, Quercus fletus. 9 Apparuit autem iterum Deus Jacob postquam reversus est de Mespotamia Syri, benedixitque ei 10 dicens : Non vocaberis ultra Jacob, sed Isral erit nomen tuum. Et appellavit eum Isral, 11 dixitque ei : Ego Deus omnipotens : cresce, et multiplicare : gentes et populi nationum ex te erunt, reges de lumbis tuis egredientur, 12 terramque quam dedi Abraham et Isaac, dabo tibi et semini tuo post te. 13 Et recessit ab eo. 14 Ille vero erexit titulum lapideum in loco quo locutus fuerat ei Deus : libans super eum libamina, et effundens oleum : 15 vocansque nomen loci illius Bethel.16 Egressus autem inde, venit verno tempore ad terram qu ducit Ephratam : in qua cum parturiret Rachel, 17 ob difficultatem partus periclitari cpit. Dixitque ei obstetrix : Noli timere, quia et hunc habebis filium. 18 Egrediente autem anima pr dolore, et imminente jam morte, vocavit nomen filii sui Benomi, id est, Filius doloris mei : pater vero appellavit eum Benjamin, id est, Filius dextr. 19 Mortua est ergo Rachel, et sepulta est in via qu ducit Ephratam, hc est Bethlehem. 20 Erexitque Jacob titulum super sepulchrum ejus : hic est titulus monumenti Rachel, usque in prsentem diem. 21 Egressus inde, fixit tabernaculum trans Turrem gregis. 22 Cumque habitaret in illa regione, abiit Ruben, et dormivit cum Bala concubina patris sui : quod illum minime latuit. Erant autem filii Jacob duodecim. 23 Filii Li : primogenitus Ruben, et Simeon, et Levi, et Judas, et Issachar, et Zabulon. 24 Filii Rachel : Joseph et Benjamin. 25 Filii Bal ancill Rachelis : Dan et Nephthali. 26 Filii Zelph ancill Li : Gad et Aser : hi sunt filii Jacob, qui nati sunt ei in Mesopotamia Syri.27 Venit etiam ad Isaac patrem suum in Mambre, civitatem Arbee, hc est Hebron, in qua peregrinatus est Abraham et Isaac. 28 Et completi sunt dies Isaac centum octoginta annorum. 29 Consumptusque tate mortuus est : et appositus est populo suo senex et plenus dierum : et sepelierunt eum Esau et Jacob filii sui.