ULT GEN Chapter 35

God Blesses Jacob at Bethel

35:1-15

35 Then God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and settle there, and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from the presence of Esau your brother.” 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Remove the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then let us get up and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And he has been with me in the way that I have gone.” 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was by Shechem.

5 Then they set out, and the dread of God was on the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6 Then Jacob came to Luz, which is Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 And there he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from the presence of his brother.

8 Then Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died and was buried below Bethel, under the oak tree. So he called its name Allon Bacuth.

9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he had come from Paddan Aram, and he blessed him, 10 and God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name will not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel will be your name!” So he called his name Israel.

11 Then God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a community of nations will be from you, and kings will come from your loins. 12 And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he spoke with him.

14 Then Jacob set up a pillar at the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

Rachel Dies Giving Birth to Benjamin

35:16-20

16 Then they set out from Bethel, and there was still a distance of land to come to Ephrath. Then Rachel started giving birth but was having great difficulty while she was giving birth. 17 And it happened when she was in hard labor, then the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, because this is also a son for you!” 18 Then it happened as her soul was leaving her—for she was dying, then she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

Jacob’s Twelve Sons

35:21-26

21 Then Israel set out and pitched his tents beyond Migdal Eder. 22 And it happened while Israel was living in that land, then Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father, and Israel heard.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23 The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And the sons of Bilhah, the maidservant of Rachel, were Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the sons of Zilpah, the maidservant of Leah, were Gad and Asher. Those are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Isaac’s Death

35:27-29

27 Then Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

28 And the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29 Then Isaac exhaled and died, and he was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.