Gen35:1 Jacob's Return to BethelGod Blesses Jacob at Bethel Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
Gen35:2 And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Gen35:3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone."
Gen35:4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
Gen35:5 And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen35:7 And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
Gen35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.
Gen35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.
Gen35:10 And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name." So He called his name Israel.
Gen35:11 Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
Gen35:12 The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land."
Gen35:13 Then God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
Gen35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
Gen35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.Death of Rachel
Gen35:16 Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
Gen35:17 Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear; you will have this son also."
Gen35:18 And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Gen35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Gen35:20 And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
Gen35:21 Then Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Gen35:22 And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:Jacob's Twelve Sons
Gen35:23 the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
Gen35:24 the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
Gen35:25 the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;
Gen35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.Death of Isaac
Gen35:27 Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.
Gen35:28 Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
Gen35:29 So Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.