Genesis Chapter 35

Genesis Chapter 35
1 Then God said to Jacob, Arise, go up
to Beth-el and dwell there, and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau
thy brother.
2 Then said Jacob unto his household
and to all that were with him, Put away
the strange gods that are among you, and
cleanse yourselves, and change your
garments:
3 For we will rise and go up to Beth-el,
and I will make an altar there unto God,
which heard me in the day of my
tribulation, and was with me in the way
which I went.
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods, which were in their hands,
and all their earrings which were in their
ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak,
which was by Shechem.
5 Then they went on their journey, and
the fear of God was upon the cities that
were round about them: so that they did
not follow after the sons of Jacob.
6 So came Jacob to Luz, which is in the
land of Canaan: (the same is Beth-el) he
and all the people that was with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and had
called the place, The God of Beth-el,
because that God appeared unto him
there, when he fled from his brother. 8
Then Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died,
and was buried beneath Beth-el under an
oak: and he called the name of it Allonbachuth.
9 Again God appeared unto Jacob, after
he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed
him.
10 Moreover God said unto him, Thy
name is Jacob: thy name shall be no
more called Jacob, but Israel shall be
thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 Again God said unto him, I am God
all sufficient. Grow, and multiply. A
nation and a multitude of nations shall
spring of thee, and kings shall come out
of thy loins.
12 Also I will give the land, which I
gave to Abraham and Isaac, unto thee:
and unto thy seed after thee will I give
that land.
13 So God ascended from him in the
place where he had talked with him. 14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place
where he talked with him, a pillar of
stone, and poured drink offering thereon:
also he poured oil thereon. 15 And
Jacob called the name of the place,
where God spake with him, Bethel. 16
Then they departed from Beth-el, and
when there was about half a days
journey of ground to come to Ephrath,
Rachel travailed, and in travailing she
was in peril.
17 And when she was in pains of her
labor, the midwife said unto her, Fear
not: for thou shalt have this son also.
18 Then as she was about to yield up the
Ghost (for she died) she called his name
Ben-oni, but his father called him
Benjamin.
19 Thus died Rachel, and was buried in
the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her
grave: This is the pillar of Rachel’s
grave unto this day.
21 Then Israel went forward, and
pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder. 22
Now, when Israel dwelt in that land,
Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his
father’s concubine, and it came to
Israel’s ear. And Jacob had twelve sons.
23 The sons of Leah: Reuben Jacob’s
eldest son, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and
Benjamin.
25 And the sons of Bilhah Rachel’s
maid: Dan and Naphtali.
26 And the sons of Zilpah Leah’s maid:
Gad and Asher. These are the sons of
Jacob, which were born him in Padanaram.
27 Then Jacob came unto Isaac his father
to Mamre a city of Arbah: this is
Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac were
strangers.
28 And the days of Isaac were an
hundred and fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died,
and was gathered unto his people, being
old and full of days: and his sons Esau
and Jacob buried him.