¹God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

¹Bog pa ukaže Jakobu: Vstani, idi gori v Betel in nastani se tam; in napravi tam oltar Bogu mogočnemu, ki se ti je prikazal, ko si bežal pred Ezavom, bratom svojim.

²Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

²In Jakob veli hiši svoji in vsem, ki so bili ž njim: Stran tuje bogove, ki so med vami, in očistite se ter preoblecite!

³Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”

³in vstanimo ter pojdimo gori v Betel, da napravim tam oltar Bogu mogočnemu, ki me je uslišal v dan stiske moje in mi je bil ob strani na potu, po katerem sem hodil.

⁴They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

⁴Izročé torej Jakobu vse tuje bogove, ki so bili v njih rokah, in obodce, ki so bili v njih ušesih; in Jakob jih zakoplje pod hrastom, ki je blizu Sihema.

⁵They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁵Nato se napotijo, in strah Božji je navdajal mesta, ki so bila okrog njih, da niso podili sinov Jakobovih.

⁶So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

⁶In Jakob pride v Luz, ki je v deželi Kanaanski (to je Betel), on in vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo ž njim.

⁷He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁷In napravi tam oltar, in imenoval je tisto mesto El-Betel [T. j. Bog mogočni Betela.], ker se mu je bil ondi razodel Bog, ko je bežal pred bratom svojim.

⁸Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

⁸Umrla je pa Debora, Rebekina dojnica, in je bila pokopana pod hrastom doli za Betelom, zato ga je imenoval Alon bakut [T. j. hrast jokú.].

⁹God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

⁹Nato se prikaže Bog zopet Jakobu, ko je prišel iz Padan-arama, in ga blagoslovi.

¹⁰God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

¹⁰In mu reče Bog: Ime tvoje je Jakob; odslej se ne bo imenovalo ime tvoje Jakob, ampak Izrael bode ime tvoje; in imenoval je ime njegovo Izrael.

¹¹God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

¹¹Še mu reče Bog: Jaz sem Bog silni, Vsemogočni: rodoviten bodi in množi se; narod, da, množica narodov bodi iz tebe, tudi kralji naj pridejo iz ledij tvojih.

¹²The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”

¹²Deželo pa, ki sem jo dal Abrahamu in Izaku, dam tebi, in semenu tvojemu za teboj dam deželo to.

¹³God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

¹³In Bog je šel od njega na tistem mestu, kjer je govoril ž njim.

¹⁴Jacob 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.

¹⁴In Jakob postavi spomenik na mestu, kjer je govoril ž njim, spomenik kamenen, in izlije nanj pitno daritev in ga oblije z oljem.

¹⁵Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel.”

¹⁵In Jakob je dal mestu, kjer je Bog govoril ž njim, ime Betel.

¹⁶They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

¹⁶In ko so zapustili Betel in je bilo še malo pota, da pridejo do Efrate, je imela Rahela težek porod.

¹⁷When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

¹⁷In ko je trpela hude porodne bolečine, ji reče babica: Ne boj se, ker tudi zdaj imaš sina.

¹⁸It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, “Benoni” means “son of my trouble.” but his father named him Benjamin. “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand.”

¹⁸In zgodi se, ko ji je uhajala duša in je umirala, da imenuje ime njegovo Benoni [T. j. sin bolečine moje.], ali oče njegov ga je imenoval Benjamina [T. j. sin desnice.].

¹⁹Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

¹⁹In umrla je Rahela in je bila pokopana na potu v Efrato (to je Betlehem).

²⁰Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

²⁰In Jakob postavi spomenik na njen grob, to je Spomenik Rahelinega groba do današnjega dne.

²¹Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

²¹Nato se napoti Izrael in razpne šator svoj onkraj stolpa Ederja.

²²It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²²Zgodi se pa, ko je bival Izrael v tisti pokrajini, da je šel Ruben in ležal z Bilho, priležnico očeta svojega; in to je slišal Izrael. Bilo je pa sinov Izraelovih dvanajst.

²³The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

²³Sinovi Leje: prvenec Jakobov Ruben, in Simeon in Levi in Juda, Isahar in Zebulon;

²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁴sinova Rahele: Jožef in Benjamin;

²⁵The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

²⁵sinova pa Bilhe, ki je bila Rahelina dekla: Dan in Neftali;

²⁶The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

²⁶in sinova Zilpe, ki je bila Lejina dekla: Gad in Aser. Ti so sinovi Jakobovi, ki so se mu rodli v Padan-aramu.

²⁷Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

²⁷In pride Jakob k Izaku, očetu svojemu, v Mamro pri Kirjat-arbi, to je Hebron, kjer je nekdaj Abraham tujčeval in potem Izak.

²⁸The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

²⁸Bilo je pa Izakovih dni sto osemdeset let.In izdihnil je Izak in umrl ter je bil zbran k ljudstvu svojemu, star in dni svojih sit; in pokopala sta ga Ezav in Jakob, sina njegova.

²⁹Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

²⁹In izdihnil je Izak in umrl ter je bil zbran k ljudstvu svojemu, star in dni svojih sit; in pokopala sta ga Ezav in Jakob, sina njegova.