- [symbols] 33. Interview of Jacob and Esau. Jacob buys land at Salem.
- 34. Deina’s disgrace— Destruction of Sychem by Simeon and Levi.
- 35. Jacob goes to Bethel. Strange gods put away. name changed to Israel.
- 36. Families and descendants of Esau— Edomites. He dwelt in Mount Seir.
Jacob returns to Mambre or Hebron, where Isaak had always dwelt except when once driven by famine to Gerar of the Philistines— There Isaak dies— Jacob’s first purchase of land was at Salem and there Simeon and Levi destroyed the City for the injury done to their Sister— How could two men destroy a whole City? Yet the people had consented to be circumcised—that is to adopt the religion of Jacob— He afterwards goes by warning from God to dwell at Bethel, and now first puts away the strange Gods. Rachel bears Benjamin and dies at Bethlehem— Esau had two wives Hittites descendants from Canaan, and one a daughter of Ishmael— It seems that even then Rebecca held the Canaanites in execration; but she makes no objection to Esau’s marriage with a daughter of Ishmael.
Mountains in the Scriptures.
Dreams, and other modes of supernatural communication.