Gen 35 | NASB2020 | STEP | Then God said to Jacob , “ Arise , go up to Bethel and live there , and make an altar there to God , who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau .”

Genesis 35

Jacob Moves to Bethel

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^aBethel and live there, and make an altar there to ^bGod, who appeared to you ^cwhen you fled ^{▼▼Lit from the face of}from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his ^ehousehold and to all who were with him, “Remove ^fthe foreign gods which are among you, and ^gpurify yourselves and change your garments; 3 and let’s arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make ^han altar there to God, ⁱwho answered me on the day of my distress and ^jhas been with me ^{▼▼Lit in the way which}wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which ^{▼▼Lit were in their hand}they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the ^{▼▼Or terebinth}oak which was near Shechem.

5 As they journeyed, there was ^{▼▼Or a terror of God
,} ^oa great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to ^pLuz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 Then ^qhe built an altar there, and called the place ^{▼▼I.e., the God of Bethel}El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled ^{▼▼Lit from the face of}from his brother. 8 Now ^tDeborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named ^{▼▼I.e., oak of weeping}Allon-bacuth.

Jacob Is Named Israel

9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He ^vblessed him. 10 ^wGod said to him,

“Your name is Jacob;
^{▼▼Lit Your name}You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.”
So He called ^{▼▼Lit his name}him Israel. 11 God also said to him,

“I am ^{▼▼Heb El Shaddai
,} ^aaGod Almighty;
^abBe fruitful and multiply;
A nation and a ^acmultitude of nations shall ^{▼▼Or come into being}come from you,
And ^aekings shall ^{▼▼Or come into being}come from ^{▼▼Lit your loins}you.
12 “And ^ahthe land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give to you,
And I will give the land to your ^{▼▼Lit seed}descendants after you.”
13 Then ^ajGod went up from him at the place where He had spoken with him. 14 So Jacob set up ^aka memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ^{▼▼I.e., house of God
,} ^amBethel.

16 Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to ^anEphrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor. 17 And when she was suffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for ^aoyou have another son!” 18 And it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ^{▼▼I.e., the son of my sorrow}Ben-oni; but his father called him ^{▼▼I.e., the son of the right hand}Benjamin. 19 So ^arRachel died and was buried on the way to ^asEphrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave; that is the ^atmemorial stone of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the ^{▼▼Heb Migdal-eder
,} ^avtower of ^{▼▼Or flock}Eder.

The Sons of Israel

22 And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that ^axReuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob-- 23 ^aythe sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 ^azthe sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and ^bathe sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali; 26 and ^bbthe sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at ^bcMamre of ^bdKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

28 Now the days of Isaac were ^be180 years. 29 Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was ^bfgathered to his people, an ^bgold man ^{▼▼Lit and satisfied with days}of ripe age; and ^bihis sons Esau and Jacob buried him.