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house. they durst not pursue after them as they went
27 And when they were gone out, the other away.
sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plun- 6 And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the
dered the city in revenge of the rape. land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all
28 And they took their sheep, and their herds, the people that were with him.
and their asses, wasting all they had in their 7 And he built there an altar, and called the
houses and in their fields. name of that place, The house of God: for there
29 And their children and wives they took God appeared to him when he fled from his
captive. brother.
30 And when they had boldly perpetrated 8 At the same time Debora, the nurse of Re-
these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You becca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel,
have troubled me, and made me hateful to the under an oak, and the name of that place was
Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of called, The oak of weeping.
this land. We are few: they will gather them- 9 And God appeared again to Jacob, after
selves together and kill me; and both I, and my he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he
house shall be destroyed. blessed him,
31 They answered: Should they abuse our sis- 10 Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more
ter as a strumpet? Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he
called him Israel.
11 And said to him: I am God almighty, in-
Chapter 35 crease thou and be multiplied. Nations and peo-
ples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall
In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and come out of thy loins.
go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and
an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after
didst flee from Esau, thy brother. thee.
2 And Jacob having called together all his 13 And he departed from him.
household, said: Cast away the strange gods that 14 But he set up a monument of stone, in the
are among you, and be cleansed, and change your place where God had spoken to him: pouring
garments. drink fferings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:
3 Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we 15 And calling the name of that place Bethel.
may make there an altar to God; who heard me 16 And going forth from thence, he came in
in the day of my affliction, and accompained me the spring time to the land which leadeth to
in my journey. Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
4 So they gave him all the strange gods they 17 By reason of her hard labour, she began to
had, and the earrings which were in their ears: be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear
and he buried them under the turpentine tree, not, for thou shalt have this son also.
that is behind the city of Sichem. 18 And when her soul was departing for pain,
5 And when they were departed, the terror and death was now at hand, she called the name
of God fell upon all the cities round about, and of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: