Genesis 35Book 1 of 66 · 29 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and settle there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
  2. So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
  3. Then 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 wherever I have gone.
  4. So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth tree which was near Shechem.
  5. And they journeyed, and a terror from God fell upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
  6. So Jacob came to Luz, that is Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
  7. And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
  8. Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak tree, so he called its name Allon Bachuth, which means oak of weeping.
  9. Then God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Padan Aram, and blessed him.
  10. And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So He called his name Israel.
  11. Also God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come forth from your body.
  12. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you.
  13. Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
  14. So Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
  15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
  16. Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and she had hard labor.
  17. Now it came to pass, when she was in severe labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear; you have another son."
  18. And so it was, with her last breath as her soul was departing, for she died, that she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
  19. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
  20. Jacob set up a pillar over her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel's tomb to this day.
  21. Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
  22. And it happened, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
  23. The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
  24. The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
  25. The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
  26. The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
  27. Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
  28. Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
  29. So Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.