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And Laban gaue vnto his daughter Leah, Zilpah his mayde, for a handmayd.

And Iacob saide vnto his brethren, Gather stones: and they tooke stones, and made an heape, and they did eate there vpon the heape.

And Iacob iourneyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made boothes for his cattell: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

1611 marginal noteThat is, boothes.

And he bought a parcell of a field where hee had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechems father, for an hundred pieces of money.

1611 marginal noteOr, lambes.

1611 marginal noteCalled Acts. 7.16. Emor.

And hee erected there an Altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

1611 marginal noteThat is, God, the God of Israel.

And they said, Should hee deale with our sister, as with an harlot?

¶ And God said vnto Iacob, Arise, goe vp to Bethel, and dwel there: and make there an Altar vnto God, that appeared vnto thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

1611 marginal noteChap. 27.43.

And let vs arise, and goe vp to Bethel, and I will make there an Altar vnto God, who answered me in the day of my distresse, and was with me in the way which I went.

And hee built there an Altar, and called the place El-Bethel, because there God appeared vnto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

1611 marginal noteThat is, The God of Bethel.

1611 marginal noteChap. 28.19.

But Deborah Rebekahs nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel vnder an oke: and the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.

1611 marginal noteThat is, The oke of weeping.