35:1 Then God spoke to Jacob:
Get up and go to
Live there and make an altar to God
who appeared to you while you fleed
the presence of your brother Esau.
35:2 Then Jacob told his household
and everyone who was with him:
Turn away from the foreign gods
that are among you
and cleanse yourselves
and change your garments.
35:3 Then let us rise and go to
and I will make an altar to God
Who answered me when I was distressed
and is with me on my journey.
35:4 So they give Jacob their foreign gods
and the rings that were in their ears
and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
35:5 Then they set off on their journey
and the respect for God enveloped
the villages they passed through.
And no one pursued the sons of Jacob.
35:6 Then Jacob and those with him
arrived in Luz (
35:7 And there he built an altar
and called that place El Bethel
because God appeared to him there.
35:8 But Rebekah's nurse Deborah passed away
and she was buried
under an oak at
so he called this place
Allon Bakuth (oak of weeping).
35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again
as he returned from Padan-Aram
and blessed him.
35:10 Then God spoke to him:
Your name was Jacob.
But no more will you be called Jacob.
Instead
Thus He named him
35:11 God continued to speak to him:
I am God Almighty.
Bear fruit and become great.
People and their assemblies will follow you.
And leaders shall be brought forth
from your leadership.
35:12 And the other world given
to Abraham and Isaac will be given to you.
Yes your followers after you
will also be given that world.
35:13 Then God left him there
in that place where He spoke to him.
35:14 Then Jacob put up a monument
in that place where he spoke with God.
Then he poured an offering on it
and poured oil on it.
35:15 Then Jacob named the place
where God spoke to him
35:16 Then they traveled away from
and were a little ways away from Ephratha
when Rachel gave birth
and had great birthing pains.
35:17 Soon when she had great pains
she began to give birth.
Her midwife said to her:
Don’t worry
you are having another son.
35:18 Then as her soul passed –
because she passed away –
she named him Ben-Oni
and his father called him Benjamin.
35:19 So Rachel passed away
and her body was buried
on the road to Ephratha (
35:20 So Jacob set up a monument
on top of her tomb
that marks Rachel's tomb to this day.
35:21 Then Israel traveled on
and pitched his tent
past the
35:22 While Israel was living there
Reuben laid with Bilhah
his father's concubine
and
35:23 There were twelve sons of Jacob:
The sons of Leah:
Jacob's first-born Reuben
Simeon and Levi
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
35:24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
35:25 The sons of Rachel's housemaid Bilhah:
Dan and Naphtali.
35:26 The sons of Leah's housemaid Zilpah:
Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob
who were born of him in Padan-Aram.
35:27 Then Jacob went to his father Isaac
at Mamre in the region of Arba
which is
where Abraham and Isaac had traveled.
35:28 And Isaac lived for 180 years.
35:29 Then Isaac’s spirit passed away
and was taken up to his people.
He was aged
and satisfied with his years.
His body was buried
by sons Esau and Jacob.
