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Iacob.

CHAP. XXXV.

N THE meane time God spake to Iacob: Arise, and goe vp to Bethel, and dwel there, and make an altar to God that appeared to thee when thou diddest flie from Esau thy brother. And Iacob hauing called together al his house, said: ″ Cast away the strange Gods that are among you, and be clensed and change your garments. Arise, and let vs goe vp into Bethel, that we may make there an altar vnto God: who heard me in the day of my tribulation, and accompanyed me in my iourney. They gaue to him therefore al the strange Gods that they had, and the earelets which were in their eares: but he buried them vnder the * terebinth that is behind the citie of Sichem. And when they were departed, the terrour of God inuaded al the cities round about, and they durst not pursue them going away. And Iacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and al the people that was with him. And he builded there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother. The same time died Debora the nurse of Rebecca, and was buried at the foot of Bethel vnder an oke: and the name of that place was called The oke of weeping. And God appeared againe to Iacob after he returned from Mesopotamia of Siria, and he blessed him, saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Iacob, but Israel shal be thy name. And he ″ called him Israel, and said to him: I am God Almightie, encrease thou and multiplie: Of thee shal be nations and peoples of nations, Kings shal come forth of thy loynes. And the land which I gaue to Abraham and Isaac, I wil giue to thee, and to thy seed after thee. And he departed from him. But he erected a title of stone, in the place where God had spoken vnto him: offering vpon it liquid offerings, and powring oile on it, and calling the name of that place, Bethel. And being gone forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Rh