Genesis 35
Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you had escaped from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “throw away the foreign gods that you are keeping and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Genesis 35:3 Then we must get up and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my stress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Genesis 35:4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak tree that was near Shechem.
Genesis 35:5 And as they set out, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not attack the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35:6 And Jacob arrived at Luz (also known as Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
Genesis 35:7 so he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he had escaped from his brother.
Genesis 35:8 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So, he called its name Allon-bacuth.
Genesis 35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35:10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; but your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name.” So, he called his name Israel.
Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will come out of your own loins.
Genesis 35:12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your seed after you.”
Genesis 35:13 Then God ascended from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
Genesis 35:14 And Jacob set up a memorial in the place where he had spoken with him, a memorial of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
Genesis 35:15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Genesis 35:16 Then they traveled from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
Genesis 35:17 And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, because you have another son.”
Genesis 35:18 And her throat was giving out (because she was dying), so she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:19 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (also known as Bethlehem),
Genesis 35:20 and Jacob set up a monument over her tomb. It is the monument of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.
Genesis 35:21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Genesis 35:22 While Israel was still living in that land, Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s slave): Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s slave): Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.
Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed as a guest.
Genesis 35:28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
Genesis 35:29 And Isaac stopped breathing and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And those who buried him were Esau and Jacob, his sons.
Genesis 35 quotes:
“Reuben had enjoyed all the advantages of the firstborn, and in him were centred all his father’s hopes and aspirations. But he proved a great disappointment. The expression ‘turbulent as the waters’ suggests instability, indecisiveness and weakness, making him unfit for leadership. He showed this by committing incest with one of his father’s wives (Genesis 35:22). In later history no great leader ever emerged from the tribe of Reuben.”
Williams, Peter. From Eden to Egypt : Exploring the Genesis Themes. DayOne, 2001. p. 54.
“Genesis 35 has been called the chapter of sorrows, because of the deaths of three individuals—Deborah, Rachel, and Isaac—which are recorded there.”
Flint, V. Paul. Strangers & Pilgrims : A Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Loizeaux Bros, 1988. p. 198.
“Jacob turns to the past to explain Reuben’s future. Though granted all the benefits of a firstborn son, Reuben slept with his father’s concubine and thus forfeited his rights (see the comments on Genesis 35:22). Reuben’s tribe settled east of the Jordan River and was eventually absorbed into Moab.”
Hinton, Linda B. Genesis. Abingdon Press, 1994. p. 136.
Genesis 35 links:
“all live to him!”
“To be gathered to his people”
ACST 15. The Immortal One
another new start
death not a gateway
Excursus- “To Be Gathered”
expire
Israel- assuming the mantle
The consequences of separation
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