Genesis 35
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And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and
dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy
fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.' 2 And Jacob saith
unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of
the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your
garments; 3 and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God,
who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I
have gone.' 4 And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are]
in their hand, and the *rings
that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under
the oak which [is] by Shechem; 5 and they journey,
and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they
have not pursued after the sons of Jacob. 6 And Jacob cometh in to Luz which
[is] in the land of Canaan (it [is] Bethel), he and all the people who [are]
with him, 7 and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had
God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother. 8 And
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at
the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth
its name `Oak of weeping.' 9 And God appeareth unto
Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him; 10 and God saith to
him, `Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy
name;' and He calleth his name Israel. 11 And God saith to him, `I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and
multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy
loins go out; 12 and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac--to
thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.' 13 And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with
him. 14 And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the
place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth
on it oil; 15 and Jacob calleth the name of the place
where God spake with him Bethel. 16 And they journey
from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land
before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; 17 and it
cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also [is] a son for
thee.' 18 And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died),
that she calleth his name *Ben-Oni; and
his father called him *Benjamin;
19 and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which [is] Bethlehem, 20 and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which [is] the
standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 21 And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out
his tent beyond the tower of *Edar; 22 and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that
land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth
with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.
23 And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben,
and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 Sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and
Naphtali. 26 And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant:
Gad and Asher. These [are] sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram. 27 And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which
[is] Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac
are a hundred and eighty years, 29 and Isaac expireth,
and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and
satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.