| 35 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." | Bethel - God blesses Jacob. Gn.35.1-15 | |
| 2 | So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; | ||
| 3 | then let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone." | ||
| 4 | So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem. | ||
| 5 | And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. | ||
| 6 | And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, | ||
| 7 | and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. | ||
| 8 | And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. | ||
| 9 | God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. | ||
| 10 | And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So his name was called Israel. | ||
| 11 | And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you. | ||
| 12 | The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you." | ||
| 13 | Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him. | ||
| 14 | And Jacob 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 poured oil on it. | ||
| 15 | So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel. | ||
| 16 | Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. | Rachel dies in childbirth. Gn.35.16-21 | |
| 17 | And when she was in her hard labour, the midwife said to her, "Fear not; for now you will have another son." | ||
| 18 | And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called his name Benjamin. | ||
| 19 | So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), | ||
| 20 | and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day. | ||
| 21 | Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. | ||
| 22 | While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. | JACOB's sons. Gn.35.22-26 - 1Chr.2.1-2 | |
| 23 | The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. | ||
| 24 | The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. | ||
| 25 | The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. | ||
| 26 | The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. | ||
| 27 | And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. | Mamre - Jacob's return - the death of Isaac. Gn.35.27-29 | |
| 28 | Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. | ||
| 29 | And Isaac breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. | ||
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