Genesis 35 (NET)

Genesis 35:1¹Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:13Hos 12:4Ps 91:15Deut 32:36Gen 31:3Gen 35:7Eccl 5:4-6Exod 2:15Gen 12:8Gen 13:3-4

Genesis 35:2²So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:10Exod 19:14Ezek 18:31Jas 4:81 Pet 2:1-2Ezek 36:25Gen 18:19Heb 10:22Josh 24:15Josh 24:23

Genesis 35:3³Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:2Gen 31:3Gen 32:7Gen 31:42Prov 3:6Gen 28:15Gen 32:24Isa 30:19Ps 107:6Ps 50:15

Genesis 35:4⁴So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near ShechemCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 9:6Deut 7:25Exod 32:2-4Exod 32:20Isa 30:22Judg 8:24-27Hos 2:13Isa 2:20Deut 7:5Josh 24:25-26

Genesis 35:5⁵and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:272 Chr 17:10Josh 5:1Ps 14:5Exod 15:15-16Exod 34:24Josh 2:9-111 Sam 11:71 Sam 14:152 Chr 14:14

Genesis 35:6⁶Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:19Gen 12:8Gen 28:22Gen 48:3Judg 1:22-26

Genesis 35:7⁷He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:13Gen 35:1Gen 35:3Eccl 5:4-5Exod 17:15Ezek 48:35Gen 28:19Gen 28:22Judg 6:24

Genesis 35:8⁸(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:591 Sam 31:13Judg 2:1Judg 2:5

Genesis 35:9⁹God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:1Gen 26:2Gen 35:1Gen 12:7Gen 17:1Gen 28:13Gen 31:11-13Gen 31:3Gen 32:1Gen 32:24-30

Genesis 35:10¹⁰God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:5Gen 32:27-28Gen 17:151 Kgs 18:312 Kgs 17:34

Genesis 35:11¹¹Then God said to him, “I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation—even a company of nations—will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:1Gen 22:17Gen 9:1Exod 6:3Gen 17:5-72 Cor 6:18Gen 17:16Gen 28:3-4Gen 12:2Gen 15:5

Genesis 35:12¹²The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:7Gen 28:13Gen 26:3-4Gen 13:14-17Gen 48:4Exod 3:8Gen 15:18Josh 6:1-21Neh 13:1-31Gen 28:3-4

Genesis 35:13¹³Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:22Gen 18:33Gen 11:5Judg 13:20Judg 6:21Luke 24:31

Genesis 35:14¹⁴So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:18-191 Sam 7:12Exod 17:15Gen 31:45Gen 35:20

Genesis 35:15¹⁵Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:19

Genesis 35:16¹⁶They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor —and her labor was hard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 5:2Gen 48:71 Chr 2:191 Tim 2:152 Kgs 5:19Gen 3:16Gen 35:19Matt 2:1Matt 2:16Matt 2:18

Genesis 35:17¹⁷When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:241 Sam 4:19-21

Genesis 35:18¹⁸With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 4:91 Sam 4:20-21Acts 7:59Luke 12:20Luke 23:46Exod 12:7Gen 30:1Gen 42:38Gen 42:4Gen 43:14

Genesis 35:19¹⁹So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 5:2Gen 48:7Matt 2:6Ruth 1:2Ruth 4:11Matt 2:1Josh 19:15Matt 2:16-18Mic 6:2

Genesis 35:20²⁰Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 10:22 Sam 18:17-18Gen 35:14Gen 35:9

Genesis 35:21²¹Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 4:8Luke 2:8

Genesis 35:22²²While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:1Lev 18:81 Cor 5:12 Sam 16:21-222 Sam 20:3Gen 49:1-281 Chr 12:23-401 Chr 2:1-21 Chr 27:16-22Acts 7:8

Genesis 35:23²³The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:18-20Gen 29:32-35Gen 46:8-15Exod 1:2-4Gen 33:2

Genesis 35:24²⁴The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:22-24Gen 35:16-18Gen 46:19-22

Genesis 35:25²⁵The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:4-8Gen 37:2Gen 46:23-25

Genesis 35:26²⁶The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:20Gen 30:9-13Gen 31:18Gen 35:18Gen 46:16-18Gen 28:2

Genesis 35:27²⁷So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:18Gen 23:19Gen 18:1Gen 23:2Josh 15:132 Sam 2:12 Sam 2:112 Sam 2:32 Sam 5:12 Sam 5:3

Genesis 35:28²⁸Isaac lived to be 180 years old.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:7Gen 50:26Gen 47:28

Genesis 35:29²⁹Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:15Gen 49:33Gen 49:31Gen 23:19-20Gen 25:17Gen 25:7-9Gen 27:41Gen 3:19Job 5:26Eccl 12:5-7