Genesis Chapter 35 Back Next{35:1} God 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."
{35:2} Then 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.
{35:3} Let 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."
{35:4} They 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.
{35:5} They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
{35:6} So Jacob came to
Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of
Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
{35:7} He 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.
{35:8}
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called
Allon Bacuth.
{35:9} God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and
blessed him.
{35:10} God 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.
{35:11} God 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.
{35:12} The 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."
{35:13} God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
{35:14} 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.
{35:15} Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
{35:16} They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to
Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
{35:17} When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
{35:18} It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him
Benoni, but his
father named him
Benjamin.
{35:19} Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is
Bethlehem).
{35:20} Jacob set up a pillar on her
grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
{35:21} Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Eder.
{35:22} It 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.
{35:23} The sons of
Leah: Reuben (Jacob's
firstborn), Simeon,
Levi,
Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun.
{35:24} The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
{35:25} The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's
handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
{35:26} The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid):
Gad and
Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
{35:27} Jacob came to Isaac his father, to
Mamre, to
Kiriath Arba (which is
Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as
foreigners.
{35:28} The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
{35:29} Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
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