Genesis 35 : 1 (HCSB)
God said to Jacob, "Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35 : 2 (HCSB)
So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Genesis 35 : 3 (HCSB)
We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."
Genesis 35 : 4 (HCSB)
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
Genesis 35 : 5 (HCSB)
When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.
Genesis 35 : 6 (HCSB)
So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 35 : 7 (HCSB)
Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Genesis 35 : 8 (HCSB)
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping.
Genesis 35 : 9 (HCSB)
God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
Genesis 35 : 10 (HCSB)
God said to him: Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but Israel will be your name. So He named him Israel.
Genesis 35 : 11 (HCSB)
God also said to him: I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.
Genesis 35 : 12 (HCSB)
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. And I will give the land to your descendants after you.
Genesis 35 : 13 (HCSB)
Then God withdrew from him at the place where He had spoken to him.
Genesis 35 : 14 (HCSB)
Jacob set up a marker at the place where He had spoken to him-- a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
Genesis 35 : 15 (HCSB)
Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Genesis 35 : 16 (HCSB)
They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Genesis 35 : 17 (HCSB)
During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for this is another son for you."
Genesis 35 : 18 (HCSB)
With her last breath-- for she was dying-- she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35 : 19 (HCSB)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Genesis 35 : 20 (HCSB)
Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel's grave to this day.
Genesis 35 : 21 (HCSB)
Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the tower at Eder.
Genesis 35 : 22 (HCSB)
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons:
Genesis 35 : 23 (HCSB)
Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35 : 24 (HCSB)
Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35 : 25 (HCSB)
The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35 : 26 (HCSB)
The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Genesis 35 : 27 (HCSB)
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Genesis 35 : 28 (HCSB)
Isaac lived 180 years.
Genesis 35 : 29 (HCSB)
He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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