A ANd God sayd vnto Iacob/ aryse Ãd get the vp to Bethell/ & dwell there. And make there an aulter vnto God that apeared vnto the/ when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Than sayd Iacob vnto his housholde & to all yt were with him/ put away the strauge goddes that are amonge you & make youre selues cleane/ & chaunge youre garm?tes/ & let vs aryse & goo vp to Bethell/ yt I maye make an aulter there/ vnto God which herde me in the daye of my tribulatiÕ & was wyth me in the waye which I went. And they gaue vnto Iacob all the straunge goddes which were vnder their handes/ Ãd all their earynges which were in their eares/ and Iacob hyd them vnder an ooke at Sichem. And they departed. And the feare of God fell vpon the cyties that were rounde aboute them/ that they durst not folowe after the sonnes of Iacob. So came Iacob to Lus in the lande of Canaan/ otherwise called Bethell/ with all the people that was with him. And he buylded there an aulter/ and called the place Elbethell: because that God appered vnto him there/ when he fled from his brother. Than dyed Debora Rebeccas norse/ and was buryed benethe Bethell vnder an ooke. And the name of it was called the ooke of lamentation. And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia/ & blessed him and sayde vnto him: thy name is Iacob. Not withstondynge thou shalt be no more called Iacob/ but Israel shalbe thy name. And so was his name called Israell. And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmightie/ growe and multiplye: for people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the/ yee Ãd kynges shall come out of they loynes. And the lande which I gaue Abrahà & Isaac/ will I geue vnto the/ & vnto thi seed after the will I geue it also. And god departed frÕ him in the place where he talked with him. And Iacob set vp a marke in the place where he talked with him: euen a pilloure of stone/ & powred drynkeoffringe theron and powred also oyle thereon/ and called the name of the place where God spake with him/ Bethell. And they departed from Bethel/ & when he was but a feld brede from Ephrath/ Rahel began to trauell. And in travelynge she was in perell. And as she was in paynes of hir laboure/ the mydwyfe sayde vnto her: feare not/ for thou shalt haue this sonne also. Then as hir soule was a departinge/ that she must dye: she called his name Ben Oni. But his father called him Ben Iamin. And thus dyed Rahel Ãd was buryed in the waye to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem. And Iacob sett vp a piller apon hir graue/ which is called Rahels graue piller vnto this daye. And Israell went th?ce and pitched vp his tent beyonde the toure of Eder. And it chaunced as Israel dwelt in that lande/ that Ruben went & laye with Bilha his fathers concubyne/ & it came to Israels eare. The sonnes of Iacob were .xij. in nombre. The sonnes of Lea. Ruben Iacobs eldest sonne/ & SimeÕ/ Leui/ Iuda/ Isachar/ & Zabulon The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Ben Iamin. The sonnes of Bilha Rahels mayde: Dan & Nepthali. The sonnes of Zilpha Leas mayde Gad & Aser. Thes are the sÕnes of Iacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia. Then Iacob went vnto Isaac his father to Mamre a pricipall cyte/ otherwise called Hebron: where Abrahà & Isaac sogeorned as straungers. And the dayes of Isaac were an hundred & .lxxx. yeres: & than fell he seke & dyed/ Ãd was put vnto his people: beynge olde and full of dayes. And his sonnes Esau Ãd Iacob buried him. |