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Once again God revealed himself to Jacob, after his return from Mesopotamia of the Syrians, blessing him, (Genesis 35, 9)
and assuring him, Thou shalt not be called Jacob any longer; Israel is to be thy name. (Genesis 35, 10)
Over her tomb, Jacob raised a monument; it is called, to this day, the Pillar of Rachel’s Tomb. (Genesis 35, 20)
It was while he was living there that Ruben betook himself to his own father’s concubine, the one who was called Bala, and slept with her; nor did he contrive to keep Jacob in ignorance of it. Jacob had twelve sons altogether: (Genesis 35, 22)
by Zelpha, Lia’s serving-woman, Gad and Aser. These were Jacob’s sons, and Mesopotamia of the Syrians was their birth-place. (Genesis 35, 26)
he died at last, worn out with age, his tale of years complete. He too became a part of his people; and his two sons, Esau and Jacob, gave him burial. (Genesis 35, 29)
Afterwards Esau removed to another region, with wives and sons and daughters and all his household, with his wealth and his cattle and all that Chanaan had given him. He must needs part from his brother Jacob, (Genesis 36, 6)
Jacob, meanwhile, had settled in the land of Chanaan, where his father lived a wanderer’s life before him; (Genesis 37, 1)
and this is the record of Jacob’s line. By now, Joseph was sixteen years old,✻ and helped his brethren to feed the flocks, young though he was. He worked with the sons of his father’s wives, Bala and Zelpha; and against these brothers of his he told his father ill tales. (Genesis 37, 2)
Among his children, Jacob loved Joseph best, as old men love the sons old age has brought them; and he dressed him in a coat that was all embroidery. (Genesis 37, 3)
They hated him the more, when he recounted to them a dream of his; (Genesis 37, 5)
Listen, he said, to this dream I have had. (Genesis 37, 6)
