Genesis 35

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and live there. Build an altar there to honor me. That’s where I appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau.”

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

So Jacob spoke to his family and to everyone with him. He said, “Get rid of the statues of false gods you have with you. Make yourselves pure by washing and changing your clothes.

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Come, let’s go up to Bethel. There I’ll build an altar to honor God. He answered me when I was in trouble. He’s been with me everywhere I’ve gone.”

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

So they gave Jacob all the statues of false gods they had. They also gave him their earrings. Jacob buried those things under the oak tree at Shechem.

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

Then Jacob and everyone with him started out. The terror of God fell on the towns all around them. So no one chased them.

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz. Luz is also called Bethel. It’s in the land of Canaan.

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

Jacob built an altar at Luz. He named the place El Bethel. There God made himself known to Jacob when he was running away from his brother.

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Rebekah’s attendant Deborah died. They buried her body under the oak tree outside Bethel. So it was called Allon Bakuth.

But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again. And God blessed him.

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. But you will not be called Jacob anymore. Your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

God said to him, “I am the Mighty God. Have children so that there will be many of you. You will become the father of a nation and a community of nations. Your later family will include kings.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

I am giving you the land I gave to Abraham and Isaac. I will also give it to your children after you.”

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Then God left him at the place where he had talked with him.

And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

Jacob set up a sacred stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured out a drink offering on it. He also poured olive oil on it.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

Jacob named the place Bethel. That’s where God had talked with him.

Rachel and Isaac Die

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

They moved on from Bethel. Ephrath wasn’t very far away when Rachel began to have a baby. She was having a very hard time of it.

And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

The woman who helped her saw that she was having problems. So she said to Rachel, “Don’t be afraid. You have another son.”

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

But Rachel was dying. As she took her last breath, she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

So Rachel died. She was buried beside the road to Ephrath. Ephrath was also called Bethlehem.

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Jacob set up a stone marker over her tomb. To this day, the stone marks the place where Rachel was buried.

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Israel moved on again. He set up his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

While Israel was living in that area, Reuben went in and slept with Bilhah. She was the concubine of Reuben’s father. And Israel heard about it.

Here are the 12 sons Jacob had.

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre. Mamre is near Kiriath Arba, where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. The place is also called Hebron.

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

Isaac lived 180 years.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

Then he took his last breath and died. He was very old when he joined the members of his family who had already died. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.