Genesis 35
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Chapter 35
Jacob and his family return to Bethel
1After these things had happened, God said to Jacob, ‘Go to Bethel and live there. Build an altar to worship me. I am the God who appeared to you when you were running away from Esau.’
2So Jacob told the people in his house and everyone who was with him, ‘Throw out all the foreign idols that you have with you. Wash your body very well and put on clean clothes. 3Then we will go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to worship God. He is the one who answered me when I was in trouble. He has been with me everywhere that I went.’
4So the people gave to Jacob all their idols and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried these things under the oak tree near Shechem city. 5Then they began their journey. All the people in the towns near there were afraid of God's power. So no one attacked Jacob and his people.
6Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz, now called Bethel. That is in the land of Canaan. 7Jacob built an altar there. He called the place El Bethel, because that was where God appeared to him. #35:7 El Bethel means ‘God of Bethel’. God had appeared to him when he was running away from his brother Esau.
8Rebekah's personal servant, Deborah, died at that time. Jacob buried her under the oak tree near Bethel. That is why people call the place Allon Bacuth. #35:8 Allon Bacuth means ‘oak tree where people wept’.
9After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again. God blessed Jacob. 10He said to Jacob, ‘Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.’ So God gave the name Israel to Jacob. #35:10 See Genesis 32:28.
11Then God said to him, ‘I am Almighty God. Give birth to many children so that your descendants become very many. They will become many nations and some of them will be kings. 12I give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac. Yes, I will give this land to your descendants that will come after you.’ #35:12 God is telling Jacob about the promise that he made to Abraham (Genesis 17:1-8) and to Isaac (Genesis 26:3).
13Then God went away from the place where he spoke to Jacob. 14Jacob set up a special stone on the ground. It showed the place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering on the stone. He also poured olive oil on it. 15Jacob called the place where God spoke to him Bethel.
16Then they left Bethel and they continued to travel. When they were still a long way from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth. She had a lot of pain. 17As her pain became worse, the woman who was helping her said, ‘Do not be afraid. You have another son!’ 18But Rachel was dying. With her last breath, she gave her son the name Ben-Oni. But Jacob, his father, called him Benjamin. #35:18 Ben-Oni means ‘son of my pain’. Benjamin means ‘son of my right hand’.
19After Rachel died, they buried her near the road that goes to Ephrath. #35:19 Ephrath is now called Bethlehem. 20Jacob set up a stone as a pillar over the place where they buried Rachel. This stone still shows the place.
21Israel then continued to travel. #35:21 Jacob is now called Israel, but the Bible uses both names. He put up his tents beyond Migdal Eder. 22While Israel stayed there, his son Reuben had sex with Bilhah. She was Israel's slave wife, and Israel heard what had happened.
Jacob had 12 sons:
23The sons of Leah were Jacob's firstborn, Reuben, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
25The sons of Rachel's servant, Bilhah, were Dan and Naphtali.
26The sons of Leah's servant, Zilpah, were Gad and Asher.
These were Jacob's sons who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27Jacob arrived back at his father Isaac's home. This was in Mamre, also called Kiriath Arba, or Hebron. It was the place where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28Isaac lived for 180 years. 29Then he died and he joined his ancestors. He was an old man who had lived a long life. His sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
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Genesis 35
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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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