35:1 Then God spoke to Jacob:
Get
up and go to
Live
there and make an altar to God
who
appeared to you while you fleed
the
presence of your brother Esau.
35:2 Then Jacob told his household
and
everyone who was with him:
Turn
away from the foreign gods
that
are among you
and
cleanse yourselves
and
change your garments.
35:3 Then let us rise and go to
and
I will make an altar to God
Who
answered me when I was distressed
and
is with me on my journey.
35:4 So they give Jacob their foreign gods
and
the rings that were in their ears
and
Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
35:5 Then they set off on their journey
and
the respect for God enveloped
the
villages they passed through.
And
no one pursued the sons of Jacob.
35:6 Then Jacob and those with him
arrived
in Luz (
35:7 And there he built an altar
and
called that place El Bethel
because
God appeared to him there.
35:8 But Rebekah's nurse Deborah passed away
and
she was buried
under
an oak at
so
he called this place
Allon
Bakuth (oak of weeping).
35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again
as
he returned from Padan-Aram
and
blessed him.
35:10 Then God spoke to him:
Your
name was Jacob.
But
no more will you be called Jacob.
Instead
Thus
He named him
35:11 God continued to speak to him:
I
am God Almighty.
Bear
fruit and become great.
People
and their assemblies will follow you.
And
leaders shall be brought forth
from
your leadership.
35:12 And the other world given
to
Abraham and Isaac will be given to you.
Yes
your followers after you
will
also be given that world.
35:13 Then God left him there
in
that place where He spoke to him.
35:14 Then Jacob put up a monument
in
that place where he spoke with God.
Then
he poured an offering on it
and
poured oil on it.
35:15 Then Jacob named the place
where
God spoke to him
35:16 Then they traveled away from
and
were a little ways away from Ephratha
when
Rachel gave birth
and
had great birthing pains.
35:17 Soon when she had great pains
she
began to give birth.
Her
midwife said to her:
Don’t
worry
you
are having another son.
35:18 Then as her soul passed –
because
she passed away –
she
named him Ben-Oni
and
his father called him Benjamin.
35:19 So Rachel passed away
and
her body was buried
on
the road to Ephratha (
35:20 So Jacob set up a monument
on
top of her tomb
that
marks Rachel's tomb to this day.
35:21 Then Israel traveled on
and
pitched his tent
past
the
35:22 While Israel was living there
Reuben
laid with Bilhah
his
father's concubine
and
35:23 There were twelve sons of Jacob:
The
sons of Leah:
Jacob's
first-born Reuben
Simeon
and Levi
Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun.
35:24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph
and Benjamin.
35:25 The sons of Rachel's housemaid Bilhah:
Dan
and Naphtali.
35:26 The sons of Leah's housemaid Zilpah:
Gad
and Asher.
These
were the sons of Jacob
who
were born of him in Padan-Aram.
35:27 Then Jacob went to his father Isaac
at
Mamre in the region of Arba
which
is
where
Abraham and Isaac had traveled.
35:28 And Isaac lived for 180 years.
35:29 Then Isaac’s spirit passed away
and
was taken up to his people.
He was aged
and satisfied with his years.
His body was buried
by sons Esau and Jacob.
