35:1 AND GOD said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. And make there an altar to God Who appeared to you [in a distinct manifestation] when you fled from the presence of Esau your brother. |
35:2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the [images of] strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves and change [into fresh] garments; |
35:3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God Who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me wherever I went. |
35:4 So they [both young men and women] gave to Jacob all the strange gods they had and their earrings which were [worn as charms against evil] in their ears; and Jacob buried {and} hid them under the oak near Shechem. |
35:5 And they journeyed and a terror from God fell on the towns round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. |
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people with him. |
35:7 There he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel [God of Bethel], for there God revealed Himself to him when he fled from the presence of his brother. |
35:8 But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under an oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth [oak of weeping]. |
35:9 And God [in a distinctly visible manifestation] appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram, and declared a blessing on him. |
35:10 Again God said to him, Your name is Jacob [supplanter]; you shall not be called Jacob any longer, but Israel shall be your name. So He called him Israel [contender with God]. |
35:11 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 be born of your stock; |
35:12 The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land. |
35:13 Then God ascended from him in the place where He talked with him. |
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar (monument) in the place where he talked with [God], a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it and he poured oil on it. |
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him Bethel [house of God]. |
35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel and had but a little way to go to Ephrath [Bethlehem] when Rachel suffered the pangs of childbirth and had hard labor. |
35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid; you shall have this son also. |
35:18 And as her soul was departing, for she died, she called his name Ben-oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Benjamin [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 a pillar (monument) on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. |
35:21 Then Israel journeyed on and spread his tent on the other side of the tower of Edar. |
35:22 When Israel dwelt there, Reuben [his eldest son] went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob's sons were twelve. |
35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. |
35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan-aram. |
35:27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre or Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. |
35:28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. |
35:29 And Isaac's spirit departed; he died and was gathered to his people, being an old man, satisfied {and} satiated with days; his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |