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And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he,I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.

And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he halted upon his thigh.

And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.

And Jacob said, If I have found grace in thy sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen thy face, as if any one should see the face of God, and thou shalt be well-pleased with me.

Receive my blessings, which I have brought thee, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them.

And he set up there an alter, and called on the God of Israel.

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Baethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

And let us rise and go up to Baethel, and let us there make an alter to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baethel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luza, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.

And God said to him, Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.

And God said to him, I am thy God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God spoke with him, even a pillar of stone; and offered a libation upon it, and poured oil upon it.

And Jacob called the name of the place in which God spoke with him, Baethel.

And Er, the first-born of Judas, was wicked before the Lord; and God killed him.

And his doing this appeared evil before God; and he slew him also.

and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but thou, because thou art his wife—how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God?

And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through god? tell them than to me.