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Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way.

These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,

and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.

Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town:

including Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.

He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.

Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.

But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Jacob moved on and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder.

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

and died at a ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the people of his house, along with all his livestock and all the possessions he had gotten in the land of Canaan, and went away from his brother Jacob to another land.

The following tribes were descended from Esau by his wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Zibeon had two sons, Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was taking care of his father's donkeys.)

Before there were any kings in Israel, the following kings ruled the land of Edom in succession: Bela son of Beor from Dinhabah Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah Husham from the region of Teman Hadad son of Bedad from Avith (he defeated the Midianites in a battle in the country of Moab) Samlah from Masrekah Shaul from Rehoboth-on-the-River Baal Hanan son of Achbor Hadad from Pau (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab)