Genesis 35:1-14
Jacob Moves to Bethel
1 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)purify 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 As they journeyed, there was (f)(J)a great terror 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)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 Now (M)Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named (i)Allon-bacuth.
Jacob Is Named Israel
Footnotes:
a.
Genesis 35:1: ['Lit ', dwell]
b.
Genesis 35:1: ['Lit ', from the face of]
c.
Genesis 35:3: ['Lit ', in the way which]
d.
Genesis 35:4: ['Lit ', were in their hand]
e.
Genesis 35:4: ['Or ', terebinth]
f.
Genesis 35:5: ['Or ', a terror of God]
g.
Genesis 35:7: ['I.e. the God of Bethel']
h.
Genesis 35:7: ['Lit ', from the face of]
i.
Genesis 35:8: ['I.e. oak of weeping']
j.
Genesis 35:10: ['Lit ', Your name]
k.
Genesis 35:10: ['Lit ', his name]
l.
Genesis 35:11: ['Heb ', El Shaddai]
m.
Genesis 35:11: ['Or ', come into being]
n.
Genesis 35:11: ['Or ', come into being]
o.
Genesis 35:11: ['Lit ', your loins]
p.
Genesis 35:12: ['Lit ', seed]