Quotes About Identity

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.

We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esauís wife Basemath.

All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotanís sister.

These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

These are the names of Esauís chiefs, according to their families and regions, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,