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And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.
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Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.
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And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name." So He called his name Israel.
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Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
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The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land."
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Then God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
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So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
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Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
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Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear; you will have this son also."