Liber Genesis, 35

1. interea locutus est Deus ad Jacob surge et ascende Bethel et habita ibi facque altare Deo qui apparuit tibi quando fugiebas Esau fratrem tuum

1. In the meantime God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.

2. Jacob vero convocata omni domo sua ait abicite deos alienos qui in medio vestri sunt et mundamini ac mutate vestimenta vestra

2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.

3. surgite et ascendamus in Bethel ut faciamus ibi altare Deo qui exaudivit me in die tribulationis meæ et fuit socius itineris mei

3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.

4. dederunt ergo ei omnes deos alienos quos habebant et inaures quæ erant in auribus eorum at ille infodit ea subter terebinthum quæ est post urbem Sychem

4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

5. cumque profecti essent terror Dei invasit omnes per circuitum civitates et non sunt ausi persequi recedentes

5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

6. venit igitur Jacob Luzam quæ est in terra Chanaan cognomento Bethel ipse et omnis populus cum eo

6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.

7. ædificavitque ibi altare et appellavit nomen loci Domus Dei ibi enim apparuit ei Deus cum fugeret fratrem suum

7. And he built 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.

8. eodem tempore mortua est Debbora nutrix Rebeccæ et sepulta ad radices Bethel subter quercum vocatumque est nomen loci quercus Fletus

8. At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

9. apparuit autem iterum Deus Jacob postquam reversus est de Mesopotamiam Syriæ benedixitque ei

9. And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

10. dicens non vocaberis ultra Jacob sed Israël erit nomen tuum et appellavit eum Israël

10. Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.

11. dixitque ei ego Deus omnipotens cresce et multiplicare gentes et populi nationum erunt ex te reges de lumbis tuis egredientur

11. And said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

12. terramque quam dedi Abraham et Isaac dabo tibi et semini tuo post te

12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

13. et recessit ab eo

13. And he departed from him.

14. ille vero erexit titulum lapideum in loco quo locutus ei fuerat Deus libans super eum libamina et effundens oleum

14. But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

15. vocansque nomen loci Bethel

15. And calling the name of that place Bethel.

16. egressus inde venit verno tempore ad terram quæ ducit Efratham in qua cum parturiret Raël

16. And going forth from thence, he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

17. ob difficultatem partus periclitari cœpit dixitque ei obsetrix noli timere quia et hunc habebis filium

17. By reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

18. egrediente autem anima præ dolore et inminente jam morte vocavit nomen filii sui Benoni id est filius doloris mei pater vero appellavit eum Beniamin id est filius dexteræ

18. And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, The son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, The son of the right hand.

19. mortua est ergo Raël et sepulta in via quæ ducit Efratham hæc est Bethleem

19. So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem.

20. erexitque Jacob titulum super sepulchrum ejus hic est titulus monumenti Raël usque in præsentem diem

20. And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulcher: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

21. egressus inde fixit tabernaculum trans turrem Gregis

21. Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

22. cumque habitaret in illa regione abiit Ruben et dormivit cum Bala concubina patris sui quod illum minime latuit erant autem filii Jacob duodecim

22. And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala, the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

23. filii Liæ primogenitus Ruben et Symeon et Levi et Judas et Isachar et Zabulon

23. The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zebulon.

24. filii Raël Joseph et Beniamin

24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25. filii Balæ ancillæ Rahelis Dan et Nepthalim

25. The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphthali.

26. filii Zelphæ ancillæ Liæ Gad et Aser hii filii Jacob qui nati sunt ei in Mesopotamiam Syriæ

26. The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

27. venit etiam ad Isaac patrem suum in Mambre civitatem Arbee hæc est Hebron in qua peregrinatus est Abraham et Isaac

27. And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: Wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28. et conpleti sunt dies Isaac centum octoginta annorum

28. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

29. consumptusque ætate mortuus est et adpositus populo suo senex et plenus dierum et sepelierunt eum Esau et Jacob filii sui

29. And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.