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Genesis 35 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Jacob Moves to Bethel

Gen 35:1

Gen 35:1Then 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 35:2

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 purify yourselves and change your garments;

Gen 35:3

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 35:4

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

Gen 35:5As they journeyed, there was [fn]a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Gen 35:6

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 35:7

Gen 35:7He 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 35:8

Gen 35:8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named [fn]Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

Gen 35:9

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

Gen 35:10

Gen 35:10God said to him,
“Your name is Jacob;
[fn]You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.”
Thus He called [fn]him Israel.

Gen 35:11

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

Gen 35:12

Gen 35:12“The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give it to you,
And I will give the land to your [fn]descendants 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 35:14Jacob 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 35:15

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

Gen 35:16

Gen 35:16Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she [fn]suffered severe labor.

Gen 35:17

Gen 35:17When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”

Gen 35:18

Gen 35:18It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him [fn]Ben-oni; but his father called him [fn]Benjamin.

Gen 35:19

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

Gen 35:20

Gen 35:20Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

Gen 35:21

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

Gen 35:22

Gen 35:22It 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—

The Sons of Israel

Gen 35:23

Gen 35:23the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

Gen 35:24

Gen 35:24the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

Gen 35:25

Gen 35:25and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;

Gen 35:26

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

Gen 35:27

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

Gen 35:28

Gen 35:28Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

Gen 35:29

Gen 35:29Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man [fn]of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: dwell
Literally: from the face of
Literally: in the way which
Literally: were in their hand
Or, terebinth
Or, a terror of God
I.e. the God of Bethel
Literally: from the face of
I.e. oak of weeping
Literally: Your name
Literally: his name
Hebrew: El Shaddai
Or, come into being
Literally: your loins
Literally: seed
I.e. the house of God
Literally: had difficulty in her giving birth
I.e. the son of my sorrow
I.e. the son of the right hand
Hebrew: Migdal-eder
Or, flock
Literally: and satisfied with days
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