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Themes in Genesis 35
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Themes in Genesis 35

Genesis 35:1

Later, God told Jacob, "Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."

Genesis 35:2

Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

Genesis 35:3

Then let's get up and go to Bethel, where I'll build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who was with me on the road, wherever I went."

Genesis 35:4

So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem.

Genesis 35:5

As they set out on their journey, because the people who lived in the cities around them feared God, they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

Genesis 35:6

Eventually, Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz (also called Beth-el) in the territory of Canaan.

Genesis 35:7

He built an altar there to God and named the place El Beth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother.

Genesis 35:8

Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth.

Genesis 35:9

God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10

Then God told him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel."

Genesis 35:11

So God called his name Israel and also told him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you they'll emerge from your own loins!

Genesis 35:12

Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I'm giving the land to you!"

Genesis 35:13

After this, God ascended from the place where he had been speaking to him.

Genesis 35:14

Jacob erected a pillar of stone at that very place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering over it, anointed it with oil,

Genesis 35:15

and named the place where God had spoken to him Beth-el.

Genesis 35:16

Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.

Genesis 35:17

While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, "Don't fear! You're going to have another son."

Genesis 35:18

Just before she died, Rachel called her son's name Ben-oni, but his father Jacob named him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

Genesis 35:20

Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

Genesis 35:21

Jacob continued his travels, and eventually pitched his tent facing Migdal Eder.

Genesis 35:22

But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went inside his father's tent and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 35:23

Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35:24

Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 35:25

Rachel's servant Bilhah's sons were Dan and Naphtali.

Genesis 35:26

Leah's servant Zilpah's sons were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him while he lived in Paddan-aram.

Genesis 35:27

So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 35:28

Isaac had lived a total of 180 years

Genesis 35:29

when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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