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Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.

And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.

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

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

So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)

His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.

Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up"—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

So he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.'"

So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,