Genesis 35 (NET)

Genesis 35:1¹Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:2²So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:3³Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:4⁴So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near ShechemCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:5⁵and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:6⁶Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:7⁷He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:8⁸(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:9⁹God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:10¹⁰God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:11¹¹Then God said to him, “I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation—even a company of nations—will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:12¹²The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:13¹³Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:14¹⁴So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:15¹⁵Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:16¹⁶They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor —and her labor was hard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:17¹⁷When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:18¹⁸With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:19¹⁹So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:20²⁰Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:21²¹Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:22²²While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:23²³The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:24²⁴The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:25²⁵The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:26²⁶The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:27²⁷So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:28²⁸Isaac lived to be 180 years old.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 35:29²⁹Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s