OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 15

Genesis 35:15

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Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

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Genesis 35:12–18

12

The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”

13

God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

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Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

16

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

17

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

18

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

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