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He told his father, Hamor, "Please get this girl for me so I can marry her."

Jacob learned how Shechem had disgraced his daughter, but since his sons were out in the field with the cattle, Jacob said nothing until they came home.

Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with lies, because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah.

So Shechem quickly went to be circumcised because he loved Jacob's daughter. Now Shechem was the most respected man in his family.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem and then took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left.

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.

Then Jacob and his sons left there. But God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid, so they did not follow them.

There Jacob built an altar and named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there when he was running from his brother.

Jacob and his group left Bethel. Before they came to Ephrath, Rachel began giving birth to her baby,

Then Israel continued his journey and camped just south of Migdal Eder.

He had six sons by his wife Leah: Reuben, his first son, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

He had two sons by his wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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

So Isaac breathed his last breath and died when he was very old, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the people who lived with him, his herds and other animals, and all the belongings he had gotten in Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

Eliphaz also had a slave woman named Timna, and Timna and Eliphaz gave birth to Amalek. These were Esau's grandsons by his wife Adah.

Reuel had four sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were Esau's grandsons by his wife Basemath.

The sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. Anah is the man who found the hot springs in the desert while he was caring for his father's donkeys.

When Baal-Hanan son of Acbor died, Hadad became king. He was from the city of Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, who was the daughter of Me-Zahab.

Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.