| Book of Genesis |
| Chapter 35 |
- 35:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
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- 35:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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- 35:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
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- 35:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.
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- 35:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
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- 35:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
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- 35:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, F175 because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
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- 35:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth. F176
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- 35:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, F177 God appeared to him again and blessed him.
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- 35:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, F178 but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. F179 " So he named him Israel.
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- 35:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - And God said to him, "I am God Almighty F180 ; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.
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- 35:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you."
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- 35:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
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- 35:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
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- 35:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel. F181
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- 35:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
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- 35:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son."
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- 35:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - As she breathed her last - for she was dying - she named her son Ben-Oni. F182 But his father named him Benjamin. F183
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- 35:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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- 35:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.
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- 35:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
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- 35:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:
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- 35:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
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- 35:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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- 35:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
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- 35:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
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- 35:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
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- 35:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
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- 35:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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FOOTNOTES: F175 El Bethel means God of Bethel. F176 Allon Bacuth means oak of weeping. F177 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verse 26 F178 Jacob means he grasps the heel (figuratively, he deceives). F179 Israel means he struggles with God. F180 Hebrew El-Shaddai F181 Bethel means house of God. F182 Ben-Oni means son of my trouble. F183 Benjamin means son of my right hand.
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