Genesis 35
35
Jacob Returns to Bethel
1Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, dwell there, and there make an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, # Ge 18:19 “Put away the foreign gods that are among you. # Ge 31:19 Purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.” # Ge 31:3, 42 4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their possession and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem. # Jos 24:25–26; Jdg 9:6 5As they traveled, the terror of God was on the cities that were around them, # Ex 23:27 and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), # Ge 28:19 which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7There he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, # Ge 28:13 because God had appeared to him there when he fled from his brother.
8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, # Ge 24:59 died and was buried beneath Bethel under the oak. So it was called Allon Bakuth.
9God appeared to Jacob again # Ge 12:7; 18:1 when he came out of Paddan Aram and blessed him. 10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel shall be your name.” # Ge 17:5, 15 So He called his name Israel.
11God said to him, “I am God Almighty. # Ge 17:1; Ex 6:3 Be fruitful and multiply. # Ge 1:22; 8:17; 9:1 A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you. # Ge 17:16 12The land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.” # Ge 12:7; 28:13 13Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. # Ge 17:22; 18:33
14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. # Ge 28:18–19 15So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. # Ge 28:19
The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
1Ch 2:1–2
16They journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, # Ge 48:7; Mic 5:2 Rachel went into labor, and she had a difficult labor. 17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear. You will have this son also.” # Ge 30:24 18As her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin. # Ge 49:27; Dt 33:12; Jdg 20:1–21:25; 1Sa 9:1–2; Php 3:5
19Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. # Ge 48:7; Ru 1:2; Mic 5:2 20Jacob set a pillar on her grave. It is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. # 1Sa 10:2
21Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. # Mic 4:8 22When Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, # Lev 18:8; 1Ch 5:1 and Israel heard about it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23The sons of Leah were
Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun. # Ge 29:32–35; 30:18–20
24The sons of Rachel were
Joseph and Benjamin. # Ge 30:22–24
25And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were
Dan and Naphtali. # Ge 30:4–8
26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were
Gad and Asher. # Ge 30:11–13
These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27Jacob came back to Isaac his father in Mamre of Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), # Ge 13:18; 18:1 where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. # Ge 25:7 29And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days, # Ge 15:15; 49:33 and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Genesis 35
35
1In the mean time, God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.
2And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.
3Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.
4So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
5And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
6And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
7And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.
8At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.
9And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
10Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.
11And said to him: I am God Almighty. Increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
13And he departed from him.
14But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:
15And calling the name of that place Bethel.
16And going forth from thence, he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
17By reason of her hard labor, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
18And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, The son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, The son of the right hand.
19So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata. This is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre. This is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.
21Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.
22And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala, the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.
24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephtali.
26The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser. These are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.
27And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron, wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
29And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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