Genesis 35
1 God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and live there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
2 Jacob said to his household and to everyone with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
3 Let us get up and go up to Bethel. There I will build an altar to the God who answered me on the day of my distress and was with me on the journey I took.”
4 They gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had in their hands, and the earrings they wore. Jacob buried them beneath the terebinth near Shechem.
5 Then they set out, and a terror from God fell on the cities around them, so no one pursued the sons of Jacob.
6 Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan—that is, Bethel—he and all the people who were with him.
7 There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel, beneath the oak. It was named Allon-Bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.
10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel.” And he named him Israel.
11 God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.
12 The land 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 at the place where he had spoken with him.
14 Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, a stone pillar. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
15 Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
16 They set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and the birth was difficult.
17 As the birth was difficult, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have another son.”
18 As she breathed her last, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
19 Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
20 Jacob set up a pillar over her grave. It is the pillar over Rachel’s grave to this day.
21 Israel set out and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob’s sons were twelve.
23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were Jacob’s sons, born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.
28 Isaac lived 180 years.
29 Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kin, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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