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children among vs be circumcised as they are altar, and had called the place, The God of Beth-
circumcised. 23 Shall not their flockes and their el, because that God appeared vnto him there,
substance and all their cattell be ours? onely when he fled from his brother. 8 Then Deborah
let vs consent herein vnto them, and they will Rebekahs nourse dyed, and was buried beneath
dwell with vs. 24 And vnto Hamor, and Shechem Beth-el vnder an oke: and he called the name
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his sonne hearkened all that went out of the of it Allon Bachuth. Againe God appeared vnto
gate of his citie: and all the men children were Iaakob, after he came out of Padan Aram, and
circumcised, euen all that went out of the gate blessed him. 10 Moreouer God said vnto him, Thy
of his citie. 25 And on the thirde day (when they name is Iaakob: thy name shalbe no more called
were sore) two of the sonnes of Iaakob, Simeon Iaakob, but Israel shalbe thy name: and hee called
and Leui, Dinahs brethren tooke either of them his name Israel. 11 Againe God said vnto him, I am
his sworde and went into the citie boldly, and God all sufficient. growe, and multiplie. a nation
slue euery male. 26 They slewe also Hamor and and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee,
Shechem his sonne with the edge of the sword, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes. 12 Also
and tooke Dinah out of Shechems house, and I will giue the lande, which I gaue to Abraham
went their way. 27 Againe the other sonnes of and Izhak, vnto thee: and vnto thy seede after
Iaakob came vpon the dead, and spoyled the citie, thee will I giue that land. 13 So God ascended
because they had defiled their sister. 28 They from him in the place where he had talked with
tooke their sheepe and their beeues, and their him. 14 And Iaakob set vp a pillar in the place
asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in where he talked with him, a pillar of stone, and
the fieldes. 29 Also they caryed away captiue and powred drinke offring thereon: also hee powred
spoyled all their goods, and all their children oyle thereon. 15 And Iaakob called the name of
and their wiues, and all that was in the houses.
30 Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue the place, where God spake with him, Beth-el.
troubled me, and made me stinke among the 16 Then they departed from Beth-el, and when
inhabitats of the land, aswell the Canaanites, as therewasabouthalfeadaiesiourneyofgroundto
the Perizzites, and and I being few in nomber, come to Ephrath, Rahel trauailed, and in trauail-
they shall gather theselues together against me, ing she was in perill. 17 And whe she was in paines
and slay me, and so shall I, and my house be of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her, Feare
destroied. 31 And they answered, Shoulde hee not: for thou shalt haue this sonne also. 18 Then
abuse our sister as a whore? as she was about to yeelde vp the Ghost (for she
died) she called his name Ben-oni, but his father
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1 Then God sayde to Iaakob, Arise, goe vp to was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-
Beth-el and dwell there, and make there an altar lehem. 20 And Iaakob set a pillar vpon her graue:
vnto God, that appeared vnto thee, when thou This is the pillar of Rahels graue vnto this day.
fleddest from Esau thy brother. 2 Then saide 21 Then Israel went forwarde, and pitched his tent
Iaakob vnto his houshold and to all that were beyond Migdal-eder. 22 Now, when Israel dwelt
with him, Put away the strange gods that are in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah
among you, and clense your selues, and change his fathers concubine, and it came to Israels eare.
your garments: 3 For we will rise and goe vp to And Iaakob had twelue sonnes. 23 The sonnes of
Beth-el, and I will make an altar there vnto God, Leah: Reuben Iaakobs eldest sonne, and Simeon,
which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
was with me in the way which I went. And they 24 The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph and Beniamin.
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gaue vnto Iaakob all the strange gods, which were 25 And the sonnes of Bilhah Rahels maide: Dan
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in their hands, and all their earings which were and Naphtali. And the sonnes of Zilpah Leahs
in their eares, and Iaakob hidde them vnder an maide: Gad and Asher. These are the sonnes of
oke, which was by Shechem. 5 Then they went Iaakob, which were borne him in Padan Aram.
Then Iaakob came vnto Izhak his father to
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on their iourney, and the feare of God was vpon Mamre a citie of Arbah: this is Hebron, where
the cities that were roud about them: so that Abraham and Izhak were strangers. 28 And the
they did not follow after the sonnes of Iaakob. daies of Izhak were an hundreth and fourescore
6 So came Iaakob to Luz, which is in the land of yeeres. 29 And Izhak gaue vp the ghost and died,
Canaan: (the same is Beth-el) hee and all the and was gathered vnto his people, being olde
people that was with him. And he built there an
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