Genesis Chapter 35 Darby English Bible

Genesis 35:1

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the ùGod that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 35:2

And Jacob said to 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;

Genesis 35:3

and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the ùGod that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.

Genesis 35:4

And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem.

Genesis 35:5

And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 35:6

And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

Genesis 35:7

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

Genesis 35:9

And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10

And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel.

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, I am the Almighty ùGod: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 35:12

And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Genesis 35:13

And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him.

Genesis 35:14

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:15

And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

Genesis 35:16

And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.

Genesis 35:17

And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.

Genesis 35:18

And it came to pass as her soul was departing -- for she died -- that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:19

And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.

Genesis 35:20

And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day.

Genesis 35:21

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder.

Genesis 35:22

And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 35:23

The sons of Leah: Reuben -- Jacob's firstborn -- and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 35:25

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.

Genesis 35:26

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.

Genesis 35:27

And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre -- to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac.

Genesis 35:28

And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

Genesis 35:29

And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.