GENESIS Chapter 35
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35:1 God said to
Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to
me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother
Esau." |
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35:2 So Jacob said
to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods
that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes. |
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35:3 We are going
to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who
helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I
have gone." |
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35:4 So they gave
Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were
wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
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35:5 When Jacob and
his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns,
and they did not pursue them. |
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35:6 Jacob came
with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of
Canaan. |
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35:7 He built an
altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had
revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother. |
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35:8 Rebecca's
nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was
named "Oak of Weeping." |
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35:9
When Jacob
returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him. |
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35:10 God said to
him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So
God named him Israel. |
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35:11
And God
said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be
descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings. |
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35:12 I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to
Isaac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you." |
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35:13
Then God
left him. |
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35:14 There, where
God had spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and consecrated it by
pouring wine and olive oil on it. |
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35:15 He named the
place Bethel. |
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35:16 Jacob and his
family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and
she was having difficult labor. |
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35:17 When her labor
pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid,
Rachel; it's another boy." |
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35:18 But she was
dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni,
but his father named him Benjamin. |
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35:19
When Rachel
died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath,
now known as Bethlehem. |
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35:20 Jacob set up a
memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day. |
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35:21 Jacob moved on
and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder. |
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35:22
While Jacob
was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about
it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons. |
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35:23 The sons of
Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
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35:24 The sons of
Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. |
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35:25 The sons of
Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. |
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35:26 The sons of
Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons
were born in Mesopotamia. |
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35:27 Jacob went to
his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where
Abraham and Isaac had lived. |
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35:28 Isaac lived to
be a hundred and eighty years old |
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35:29 and died at a
ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. |
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