Genesis, Chapter 35:

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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 35 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.

Genesis - Old Testament — Genesis – Old Testament

Jacob returns to Bethel

1. God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
2. Then Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves and change your clothes.
3. Let's get up and go up to Bethel. I will make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4. Then they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the earrings they had in their ears, and he buried them under the oak in Shechem.
5. Then they left. God's terror spread throughout the surrounding cities, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.
6. Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz, which is Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
7. There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, because there God had appeared to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8. Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel, under an oak that was called Alom-Bacute.
9. After Jacob returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; His name will be Israel.” And so he was called Israel.
11. God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, yes, a community of nations, will come from you, and kings will come from you.
12. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give it to your descendants after you.”
13. Then God went up from him, from the place where he had spoken to him.
14. Jacob set up a stone pillar in that place, and poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
15. Jacob called the place where God had spoken to him Bethel.

The Death of Rachel and Isaac

16. Then they left Bethel. She was still some distance from Ephrathah when Rachel began to give birth and had difficult labor.
17. While she was having great difficulty in giving birth, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you will have another child.”
18. As she agonized at the moment of death, she named her son Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.
19. So Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20. Jacob erected a pillar over her tomb; This is the pillar of Rachel's tomb to this day.
21. Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-Eder.
22. It came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father's concubine. Israel knew about it.
23. Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;
24. Rachel's sons: Joseph and Benjamin;
25. the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;
26. and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, born in Paddan-aram.
27. Then Jacob returned to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Cheirath-arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
28. Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old
29. and he died and was gathered to his ancestors, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.