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Genesis, Chapter 35

¹ Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and^a Lit dwelllive there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled^b Lit from the face offrom your brother Esau.” ² So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments; ³ and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me^c Lit in the way whichwherever I have gone.” ⁴ So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which^d Lit were in their handthey had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the^e Or terebinthoak which was near Shechem.	1 Gen 28:19 Gen 28:13 Gen 27:43 2 Gen 18:19 Jos 24:15 Gen 31:19 Gen 31:30 Gen 31:34 Exo 19:10 Exo 19:14 3 Gen 28:20-22 Psa 107:6 Gen 28:15 Gen 31:3 Gen 31:42
⁵ As they journeyed, there was^f Or a terror of Goda great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 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. ⁷ He built an altar there, and called the place^g I.e. the God of BethelEl-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled^h Lit from the face offrom his brother. ⁸ Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was namedⁱ I.e. oak of weepingAllon-bacuth.	5 Exo 15:16 Exo 23:27 Deu 2:25 6 Gen 28:19 Gen 48:3 7 Gen 35:3 8 Gen 24:59
⁹ Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. ¹⁰ God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; ^j Lit Your nameYou shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name.” Thus He called^k Lit his namehim Israel. ¹¹ God also said to him, “I am^l Heb El ShaddaiGod Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall^m Or come into beingcome from you, And kings shallⁿ Or come into beingcome forth from^o Lit your loinsyou. ¹² “The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your^p Lit seeddescendants after you.”	9 Gen 32:29 10 Gen 17:5 Gen 32:28 11 Gen 17:1 Gen 28:3 Exo 6:3 Gen 9:1 Gen 9:7 Gen 48:4 Gen 17:6 Gen 17:16 Gen 36:31 12 Gen 12:7 Gen 13:15 Gen 26:3 Gen 26:4 Gen 28:13 Exo 32:13
¹³ Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. ¹⁴ 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; he also poured oil on it. ¹⁵ So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him,^q I.e. the house of GodBethel.	13 Gen 17:22 Gen 18:33 14 Gen 28:18 Gen 28:19 Gen 31:45 15 Gen 28:19
¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she^r Lit had difficulty in her giving birthsuffered severe labor. ¹⁷ When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.” ¹⁸ It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him^s I.e. the son of my sorrowBen-oni; but his father called him^t I.e. the son of the right handBenjamin. ¹⁹ So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ²⁰ Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. ²¹ Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the^u Heb Migdal-edertower of^v Or flockEder.	16 Gen 35:19 Gen 48:7 Rut 4:11 Mic 5:2 17 Gen 30:24 19 Gen 48:7 Rut 1:2 Rut 4:11 Mic 5:2 20 Sa1 10:2 21 Mic 4:8
²² It came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob— ²³ the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; ²⁴ the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶ and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.	22 Gen 49:4 Ch1 5:1 23 Gen 29:31-35 Gen 30:18-20 Gen 46:8 Exo 1:1-4 24 Gen 30:22-24 Gen 35:18 25 Gen 30:5-8 26 Gen 30:10-13
²⁷ Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.	27 Gen 13:18 Gen 18:1 Gen 23:19 Jos 14:15
²⁸ Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man^w Lit and satisfied with daysof ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.	28 Gen 25:26 29 Gen 25:8 Gen 49:33 Gen 15:15 Gen 25:9


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