Bible Tribes

¹AND God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there; and build there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of your brother Esau. ²Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³And let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will build there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the journey that I took. ⁴So they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their possession, and the earrings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak which was by Shechem. ⁵And they journeyed; and the fear of God fell on the towns that were around them, and they did not pursue after Jacob and his sons.

⁶So Jacob came to Luz, that is Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people that were with him. ⁷And he built there an altar, and called the place Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the presence of his brother Esau. ⁸Then Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak; so the name of the oak was called the Oak of Weeping.

⁹And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padanaram, and blessed him. ¹⁰And God said to him, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name; so he called his name Israel. ¹¹And God said to him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A people and a multitude of peoples will come from you, and kings will come out of your loins; ¹²And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land. ¹³And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. ¹⁴And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. ¹⁵And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel, and continued until they came within the distance of a mile from the entrance to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor while she was being delivered. ¹⁷And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Do not fear; for this one is also a son for you. ¹⁸And it came to pass, as her soul was departing and she was dying, she called the child's name the Son of My Sorrow; but his father called him Benjamin. ¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. ²⁰And Jacob set up a pillar on the grave of Rachel; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²¹And Israel journeyed, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gadar. ²²And it came to pass, when Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were 12: ²³The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴And the sons of Rachel: Joseph, and Benjamin. ²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan, and Naphtali. ²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padanaram.

²⁷And Jacob came to his father Isaac to Mamre, to Koriath Gabarey, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had resided temporarily. ²⁸And the days of Isaac were 180 years. ²⁹Then Isaac grew weak and died; and he was gathered to his people, being very old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him in the burial ground which his father Abraham had purchased.