Genesis 35 : 1 (NCV)
God said to Jacob, "Go to the city of Bethel and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were running away from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35 : 2 (NCV)
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.
Genesis 35 : 3 (NCV)
We will leave here and go to Bethel. There I will build an altar to God, who has helped me during my time of trouble. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."
Genesis 35 : 4 (NCV)
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and the earrings they were wearing, and he hid them under the great tree near the town of Shechem.
Genesis 35 : 5 (NCV)
Then Jacob and his sons left there. But God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid, so they did not follow them.
Genesis 35 : 6 (NCV)
And Jacob and all the people who were with him went to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 35 : 7 (NCV)
There Jacob built an altar and named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there when he was running from his brother.
Genesis 35 : 8 (NCV)
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak tree at Bethel, so they named that place Oak of Crying.
Genesis 35 : 9 (NCV)
When Jacob came back from Northwest Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Genesis 35 : 10 (NCV)
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. Your new name will be Israel." So he called him Israel.
Genesis 35 : 11 (NCV)
God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.
Genesis 35 : 12 (NCV)
The same land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you and your descendants."
Genesis 35 : 13 (NCV)
Then God left him.
Genesis 35 : 14 (NCV)
Jacob set up a stone on edge in that place where God had talked to him, and he poured a drink offering and olive oil on it to make it special for God.
Genesis 35 : 15 (NCV)
And Jacob named the place Bethel.
Genesis 35 : 16 (NCV)
Jacob and his group left Bethel. Before they came to Ephrath, Rachel began giving birth to her baby,
Genesis 35 : 17 (NCV)
but she was having much trouble. When Rachel's nurse saw this, she said, "Don't be afraid, Rachel. You are giving birth to another son."
Genesis 35 : 18 (NCV)
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35 : 19 (NCV)
Rachel was buried on the road to Ephrath, a district of Bethlehem,
Genesis 35 : 20 (NCV)
and Jacob set up a rock on her grave to honor her. That rock is still there.
Genesis 35 : 21 (NCV)
Then Israeln continued his journey and camped just south of Migdal Eder.
Genesis 35 : 22 (NCV)
While Israel was there, Reuben had sexual relations with Israel's slave woman Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.
Genesis 35 : 23 (NCV)
He had six sons by his wife Leah: Reuben, his first son, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35 : 24 (NCV)
He had two sons by his wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35 : 25 (NCV)
He had two sons by Rachel's slave girl Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35 : 26 (NCV)
And he had two sons by Leah's slave girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are Jacob's sons who were born in Northwest Mesopotamia.
Genesis 35 : 27 (NCV)
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Genesis 35 : 28 (NCV)
Isaac lived one hundred eighty years.
Genesis 35 : 29 (NCV)
So Isaac breathed his last breath and died when he was very old, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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