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Genesis 35 is the thirty-fifth chapter of Genesis. It follows Genesis 34 and Genesis 36.
The text below is adapted from the ASV.
1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to the god who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.
2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments, 3 and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to the god who answered me on the day of my distress, and was with me on the way that I went.
4 And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed, and a terror of God was upon the cities around them, and they did not puruse after the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is, Bethel), he and all the people who were with him. 7 And he built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El, because there God was revealed to him when he was fleeing from the face of his brother. 8 And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak, and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
9 And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, Your name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be your name, and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said to him, I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assemblage of nations will come from you, and kings shall come from your loins. 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I give it, and to your seed after you I will give the land. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel, and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel began to give birth, and had difficult labor. 17 Now, as the was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid, because now you will have another son. 18 Then, as her life passed, because she was dying, she called his name Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set up a pillar on her grave, which is the Pillar of Rachel's Grave to this day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 22 And it happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and the son's of Rachel's slave Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of Leah's slave Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram. 27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were one hundred forty years. 29 And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days, and Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
(35:4) oak. ASV marginal note: "Or, terebinth".
(35:7) "El Beth El" means, "The God of Bethel" (as in the ASV marginal note), or "God of the House of God".
(35:8) Allon Bacuth. According to the ASV marginal note, "The oak of weeping".
(35:18) Ben-oni. Meaning, "son of my disaster", or something along those lines. But the father prefers "Benjamin", which given its place in the narrative would be presumably interpreted "son of the right hand". However, as "right" was used for "south" in Hebrew, it may in fact be the case that, historically, the Benjamites earned their name as "sons of the south" (they are the southernmost tribe of the northern kigndom of Israel).
ASV. The American Standard Version of the Bible, as printed in 1901 by Thomas Nelson and Sons.
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