Genesis Chapter 35 (Index)

001  And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

002  Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

003  And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

004  And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

005  And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

006  So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

007  And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

008  But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

009  And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

010  And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

011  And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

012  And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

013  And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

014  And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

015  And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

016  And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

017  And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

018  And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

019  And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

020  And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

021  And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

022  And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

023  The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

024  The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

025  And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

026  And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

027  And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

028  And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

029  And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.