Genesis 35

1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Cross-references: Gen 12:8 · Gen 13:3 · Gen 16:8 · Gen 22:14 · Gen 27:41 · Gen 28:10 · +11 more

2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Gen 31:19 · Gen 31:34 · Gen 34:2 · Gen 34:24 · Gen 35:22 · +49 more

3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”Cross-references: Gen 28:12 · Gen 28:15 · Gen 28:20 · Gen 31:3 · Gen 31:42 · Gen 32:7 · +14 more

4They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.Cross-references: Ex 32:2 · Ex 32:20 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 7:25 · Josh 24:25 · Judg 8:24 · +4 more

5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.Cross-references: Gen 34:30 · Ex 15:15 · Ex 23:27 · Ex 34:24 · Deut 11:25 · Josh 2:9 · +6 more

6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.Cross-references: Gen 12:8 · Gen 28:19 · Gen 28:22 · Gen 48:3 · Judg 1:22

7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.Cross-references: Gen 28:13 · Gen 28:19 · Gen 28:22 · Gen 35:1 · Gen 35:3 · Ex 17:15 · +3 more

8Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.Cross-references: Gen 24:59 · Judg 2:1 · Judg 2:5 · 1Sam 31:13

9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 18:1 · Gen 26:2 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 31:3 · +9 more

10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Gen 17:15 · Gen 32:27 · 1Ki 18:31 · 2Ki 17:34

11God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.Cross-references: Gen 9:1 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 17:5 · +15 more

12The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 28:13 · +4 more

13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.Cross-references: Gen 11:5 · Gen 17:22 · Gen 18:33 · Judg 6:21 · Judg 13:20 · Luke 24:31

14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.Cross-references: Gen 28:18 · Gen 31:45 · Gen 35:20 · Ex 17:15 · 1Sam 7:12

15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.Cross-references: Gen 28:19

16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.Cross-references: Gen 3:16 · Gen 35:19 · Gen 48:7 · Ruth 1:2 · 2Ki 5:19 · 1Chr 2:19 · +6 more

17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”Cross-references: Gen 30:24 · 1Sam 4:19

18As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.Cross-references: Gen 30:1 · Gen 42:4 · Gen 42:38 · Gen 43:14 · Gen 44:27 · Ex 12:7 · +8 more

19Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).Cross-references: Gen 48:7 · Josh 19:15 · Ruth 1:2 · Ruth 4:11 · Mic 5:2 · Mic 6:2 · +3 more

20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.Cross-references: Gen 35:9 · Gen 35:14 · 1Sam 10:2 · 2Sam 18:17

21Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.Cross-references: Mic 4:8 · Luke 2:8

22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.Cross-references: Gen 29:31 · Gen 30:5 · Gen 35:18 · Gen 46:8 · Gen 49:1 · Ex 1:1 · +22 more

23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.Cross-references: Gen 29:32 · Gen 30:18 · Gen 33:2 · Gen 46:8 · Ex 1:2

24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.Cross-references: Gen 30:22 · Gen 35:16 · Gen 46:19

25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.Cross-references: Gen 30:4 · Gen 37:2 · Gen 46:23

26The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.Cross-references: Gen 25:20 · Gen 28:2 · Gen 30:9 · Gen 31:18 · Gen 35:18 · Gen 46:16

27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.Cross-references: Gen 13:18 · Gen 14:13 · Gen 18:1 · Gen 23:2 · Gen 23:19 · Gen 27:43 · +10 more

28The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.Cross-references: Gen 25:7 · Gen 47:28 · Gen 50:26

29Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 15:15 · Gen 23:19 · Gen 25:7 · Gen 25:17 · Gen 27:1 · +5 more