Genesis 35

Return to Bethel

1God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. # 35:1 Gn 28:19 Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” # 35:1 Gn 27:43

2So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. # 35:2 Gn 31:19; Jos 24:23; 1Sm 7:3 Purify yourselves and change your clothes. # 35:2 Ex 19:10 3We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. # 35:3 1Sm 7:9; 2Sm 24:25; Jb 12:4; Ps 20:1; 34:4 He has been with me everywhere I have gone.” # 35:3 Gn 28:10–22

4Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem. 5When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons. # 35:5 Ex 23:27 6So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel # 35:6 Gn 28:19; 48:3) in the land of Canaan. 7Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel # 35:7 = God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

8Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, # 35:8 Lit Deborah, Rebekah’s wet nurse; Gn 24:59,# 35:8 Gn 24:59 died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth. # 35:8 = Oak of Weeping

9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. 10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.” # 35:10 Gn 17:5; 32:28 So he named him Israel. 11God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. # 35:11 Gn 17:1; 28:3; Ex 6:3 Be fruitful and multiply. # 35:11 Gn 9:1,7 A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, # 35:11 Gn 48:4 and kings will descend from you. # 35:11 Lit will come from your loins,# 35:11 Gn 17:6,16; 36:31 12I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. # 35:12 Gn 12:7; 13:15; 26:3–4; 28:13; Ex 32:13 And I will give the land to your future descendants.” 13Then God withdrew # 35:13 Lit went up,# 35:13 Gn 17:22; 18:33 from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

14Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him #— #a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. # 35:14 Gn 28:18–19; 31:45 15Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Rachel’s Death

16They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. 17During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.” # 35:17 Gn 30:24 18With her last breath #— #for she was dying #— #she named him Ben-oni, # 35:18 = Son of My Sorrow but his father called him Benjamin. # 35:18 = Son of the Right Hand 19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem # 35:19 Mc 5:2; Mt 2:18). 20Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave still today.

Israel’s Sons

21Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder. # 35:21 Or beyond Migdal-eder 22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. # 35:22 Gn 49:3–4

Jacob had twelve sons: # 35:22–26 1Ch 2:1–2

23Leah’s sons were Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn),

Simeon, Levi, Judah,

Issachar, and Zebulun.

24Rachel’s sons were

Joseph and Benjamin.

25The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah

were Dan and Naphtali.

26The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah

were Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Isaac’s Death

27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre # 35:27 Gn 13:18; 18:1; 23:19 in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron # 35:27 Jos 14:15), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28Isaac lived 180 years. 29He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, # 35:29 Gn 25:8,17; 49:33; Nm 20:24,26; Dt 32:50 old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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Genesis 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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