Genesis 35 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Jacob Moves to Bethel

Gen 35:1And God saith unto Jacob, 'Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

Gen 35:2

Gen 35:2And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Gen 35:3

Gen 35:3and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

Gen 35:4

Gen 35:4And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem;

Gen 35:5

Gen 35:5and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which are round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.

Gen 35:6

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

Gen 35:7

Gen 35:7and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

Gen 35:8

Gen 35:8And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name 'Oak of weeping.'

Jacob Is Named Israel

Gen 35:9

Gen 35:9And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him;

Gen 35:10

Gen 35:10and God saith to him, 'Thy name is Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.

Gen 35:11

Gen 35:11And God saith to him, 'I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

Gen 35:12

Gen 35:12and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac -- to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

Gen 35:13

Gen 35:13And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him.

Gen 35:14

Gen 35:14And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;

Gen 35:15

Gen 35:15and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.

Gen 35:16

Gen 35:16And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

Gen 35:17

Gen 35:17and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, 'Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.'

Gen 35:18

Gen 35:18And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

Gen 35:19

Gen 35:19and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,

Gen 35:20

Gen 35:20and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which is the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Gen 35:21

Gen 35:21And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar;

Gen 35:22

Gen 35:22and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

The Sons of Israel

Gen 35:23

Gen 35:23And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

Gen 35:24

Gen 35:24Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Gen 35:25

Gen 35:25And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.

Gen 35:26

Gen 35:26And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These are sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.

Gen 35:27

Gen 35:27And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.

Gen 35:28

Gen 35:28And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years,

Gen 35:29

Gen 35:29and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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