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Genesis 35 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

Gen 35:1

Gen 35:1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Gen 35:2

Gen 35:2So 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.

Gen 35:3

Gen 35:3Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Gen 35:4

Gen 35:4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

Gen 35:5

Gen 35:5And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Gen 35:6

Gen 35:6And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

Gen 35:7

Gen 35:7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[fn] because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Gen 35:8

Gen 35:8And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.[fn]

Gen 35:9

Gen 35:9God appeared[fn] to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

Gen 35:10

Gen 35:10And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.

Gen 35:11

Gen 35:11And God said to him, “I am God Almighty:[fn] be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.[fn]

Gen 35:12

Gen 35:12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”

Gen 35:13

Gen 35:13Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.

Gen 35:14

Gen 35:14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

Gen 35:15

Gen 35:15So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac

Gen 35:16

Gen 35:16Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance[fn] from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.

Gen 35:17

Gen 35:17And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.”

Gen 35:18

Gen 35:18And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni;[fn] but his father called him Benjamin.[fn]

Gen 35:19

Gen 35:19So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

Gen 35:20

Gen 35:20and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

Gen 35:21

Gen 35:21Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

Gen 35:22

Gen 35:22While Israel lived 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.

Gen 35:23

Gen 35:23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Gen 35:24

Gen 35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Gen 35:25

Gen 35:25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.

Gen 35:26

Gen 35:26The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Gen 35:27

Gen 35:27And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Gen 35:28

Gen 35:28Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

Gen 35:29

Gen 35:29And 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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ESV Footnotes
El-bethel means God of Bethel
Allon-bacuth means oak of weeping
Or had appeared
Hebrew El Shaddai
Hebrew from your loins
Or about two hours’ distance
Ben-oni could mean son of my sorrow, or son of my strength
Benjamin means son of the right hand
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