Genesis 35  Legacy Standard Bible

Jacob Goes Up to Bethel

35 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^(A)Bethel and ^[a]live there, and make an altar there to ^(B)God, who appeared to you ^(C)when you fled ^[b]from your brother Esau.” ² So Jacob said to his ^(D)household and to all who were with him, “Put away ^(E)the foreign gods which are among you and ^(F)cleanse yourselves and change your garments; ³ and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^(G)an altar there to God, ^(H)who answered me in the day of my distress and ^(I)has been with me ^[c]wherever I have gone.” ⁴ So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which ^[d]they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ^[e]oak which was near Shechem.

⁵ Then they journeyed on, and there was ^[f](J)a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. ⁶ So Jacob came to ^(K)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. ^7 (L)And he built an altar there and called the place ^[g]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ^[h]from his brother. ⁸ Then ^(M)Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named ^[i]Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Renamed Israel

⁹ Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^(N)blessed him. ^10 (O)And God said to him,

Thus He called his name Israel. ¹¹ God also said to him,

¹³ Then ^(U)God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. ¹⁴ And Jacob set up ^(V)a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. ¹⁵ So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^[m](W)Bethel.

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance to go to ^(X)Ephrath, and Rachel gave birth, and she ^[n]suffered severely in her labor. ¹⁷ Now it happened that when she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now ^(Y)you have another son.” ¹⁸ Now it happened as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ^[o]Ben-oni; but his father called him ^[p]Benjamin. ¹⁹ So ^(Z)Rachel died and was buried on the way to ^(AA)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ²⁰ And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the ^(AB)pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. ²¹ Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^[q](AC)tower of ^[r]Eder.

The Sons of Jacob

²² Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that ^(AD)Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

And there were twelve sons of Jacob—

These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^(AI)Mamre of ^(AJ)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

²⁸ Now the days of Isaac were ^(AK)180 years. ²⁹ And Isaac breathed his last and died and was ^(AL)gathered to his people, an ^(AM)old man and full of days; and ^(AN)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.