35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled ①from your brother Esau.”
▷ ①Lit from the face of
35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Remove the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
35:3 and let’s arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me on the day of my distress and has been with me ①wherever I have gone.”
▷ ①Lit in the way which
35:4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which ①they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ②oak which was near Shechem.
▷ ①Lit were in their hand ②Or terebinth
35:5 As they journeyed, there was ①a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
▷ ①Or a terror of God
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 Then he built an altar there, and called the place ①El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ②from his brother.
▷ ①I.e., the God of Bethel ②Lit from the face of
35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named ①Allon-bacuth.
▷ ①I.e., oak of weeping
35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
35:10 God said to him,
“Your name is Jacob;
①You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.” So He called ②him Israel.
▷ ①Lit Your name ②Lit his name
35:11 God also said to him,
“I am ①God Almighty;
Be fruitful and multiply;
A nation and a multitude of nations shall ②come from you,
And kings shall ③come from ④you.
▷ ①Heb El Shaddai ②Or come into being ③Or come into being ④Lit your loins
35:12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give to you,
And I will give the land to your ①descendants after you.”
▷ ①Lit seed
35:13 Then God went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him.
35:14 So Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
35:15 And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ①Bethel.
▷ ①I.e., house of God
35:16 Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.
35:17 And when she was suffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son!”
35:18 And it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ①Ben-oni; but his father called him ②Benjamin.
▷ ①I.e., the son of my sorrow ②I.e., the son of the right hand
35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
35:20 And Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave; that is the memorial stone of Rachel’s grave to this day.
35:21 Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ①tower of ②Eder.
▷ ①Heb Migdal-eder ②Or flock
35:22 And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob—
35:23 the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
35:24 the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali;
35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
35:27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.
35:28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
35:29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man ①of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
▷ ①Lit and satisfied with days