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So they gave to Jacob all the strange gods they had, and the gold objects which they wore in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the tree near Shechem.

As they traveled, much fear from God came upon the cities around them. So the people of the land did not go against the sons of Jacob.

So Jacob and all the people who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. You will not be called Jacob any longer, but Israel will be your name." So his name was Israel.

So Jacob gave the place where God had spoken with him the name Bethel.

So Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. So they hated Joseph and could not speak a kind word to him.

Then his brothers said to him, "Are you going to be our king? Are you going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for what he said.

Then Israel said, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock. Then come and tell me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And the man said, "They have moved from here. For I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph followed his brothers and found them at Dothan.

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they tore off his coat, the coat of many colors that he was wearing.

Some Midianite traders were passing by. So the brothers pulled Joseph up out of the hole. And they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they took Joseph to Egypt.

So they took Joseph's coat, killed a male goat, and put the blood on the coat.

So Jacob tore his clothes and dressed in clothes made from hair. He had sorrow for his son many days.

But Er, Judah's first-born, was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. So the Lord took his life.

But Onan knew that the children would not be his. So when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground to keep his brother from having children.

What he did was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. So the Lord took his life also.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Stay in your father's house as a woman whose husband has died, until my son Shelah is grown." For he thought, "I am afraid that he also may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

So she took off the clothes of a woman whose husband has died and put on other clothes and covered her face with cloth. Then she sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown, and she had not been given to him for a wife.