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Genesis 35 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Jacob Goes Up to Bethel

Gen 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and [fn]live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled [fn]from your brother Esau.”

Gen 35:2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you and cleanse yourselves and change your garments;
Gen 35:3and 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 [fn]wherever I have gone.”
Gen 35:4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which [fn]they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the [fn]oak which was near Shechem.
Gen 35:5

Then they journeyed on, and there was [fn]a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Gen 35:6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen 35:7And he built an altar there and called the place [fn]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled [fn]from his brother.
Gen 35:8Then Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named [fn]Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Renamed Israel

Gen 35:9

Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

Gen 35:10And God said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;

Your name shall no longer be called Jacob,

But Israel shall be your name.”

Thus He called his name Israel.

Gen 35:11God also said to him,

“I am [fn]God Almighty;

Be fruitful and multiply;

A nation and an assembly of nations shall [fn]come from you,

And kings shall [fn]come forth from your loins.

Gen 35:12

“And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,

I will give it to you,

And I will give the land to your seed after you.”

Gen 35:13

Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

Gen 35:14And 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.
Gen 35:15So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, [fn]Bethel.
Gen 35:16

Then they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and Rachel gave birth, and she [fn]suffered severely in her labor.

Gen 35:17Now it happened that when she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”
Gen 35:18Now it happened as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him [fn]Ben-oni; but his father called him [fn]Benjamin.
Gen 35:19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Gen 35:20And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Gen 35:21Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the [fn]tower of [fn]Eder.

The Sons of Jacob

Gen 35:22

Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

And there were twelve sons of Jacob

Gen 35:23

the sons of Leah:

Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,

then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

Gen 35:24

the sons of Rachel:

Joseph and Benjamin;

Gen 35:25

and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant-woman:

Dan and Naphtali;

Gen 35:26

and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant-woman:

Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Gen 35:27

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

Gen 35:28

Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

Gen 35:29And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
LSB Footnotes
Lit dwell
Lit from the face of
Lit in the way which
Lit were in their hand
Or terebinth
Or a terror of God
The God of Bethel
Lit from the face of
Lit oak of weeping
Heb El Shaddai
Or come into being
Or come into being
Lit the house of God
Lit had difficulty in her giving birth
Lit the son of my sorrow
Lit the son of the right hand
Heb Migdal-eder
Or flock
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