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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 35 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/35.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/35-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Genesis 35</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/34.htm" title="Genesis 34">◄</a> Genesis 35 <a href="../genesis/36.htm" title="Genesis 36">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Blesses Jacob at Bethel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.1" class="v0_35_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> God said to Jacob, “Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.2" class="v0_35_2">2</span>So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes. </span><span class="v0_35_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.3" class="v0_35_3">3</span>We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.” </span><span class="v0_35_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.4" class="v0_35_4">4</span>So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.5" class="v0_35_5">5</span>When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them. </span><span class="v0_35_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.6" class="v0_35_6">6</span>Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan. </span><span class="v0_35_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.7" class="v0_35_7">7</span>He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother. </span><span class="v0_35_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.8" class="v0_35_8">8</span>Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named “Oak of Weeping.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.9" class="v0_35_9">9</span>When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him. </span><span class="v0_35_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.10" class="v0_35_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel.” So God named him Israel. </span><span class="v0_35_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.11" class="v0_35_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And God said to him, “I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings. </span><span class="v0_35_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.12" class="v0_35_12">12</span>I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.” </span><span class="v0_35_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.13" class="v0_35_13">13</span>Then God left him. </span><span class="v0_35_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.14" class="v0_35_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> There, where God had spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and consecrated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it. </span><span class="v0_35_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.15" class="v0_35_15">15</span>He named the place Bethel.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Death of Rachel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.16" class="v0_35_16">16</span>Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor. </span><span class="v0_35_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.17" class="v0_35_17">17</span>When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, “Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy.” </span><span class="v0_35_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.18" class="v0_35_18">18</span>But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but his father named him Benjamin.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.18!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.19" class="v0_35_19">19</span>When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem. </span><span class="v0_35_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.20" class="v0_35_20">20</span>Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day. </span><span class="v0_35_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.21" class="v0_35_21">21</span>Jacob moved on and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Sons of Jacob</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 2:1">1 Chronicles 2.1</ref>,<ref loc="1CH 2:2">2</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.22" class="v0_35_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_22">Jacob had twelve sons. </span><span class="v0_35_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.23" class="v0_35_23">23</span>The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. </span><span class="v0_35_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.24" class="v0_35_24">24</span>The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. </span><span class="v0_35_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.25" class="v0_35_25">25</span>The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. </span><span class="v0_35_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.26" class="v0_35_26">26</span>The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Death of Isaac</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_27"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.27" class="v0_35_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. </span><span class="v0_35_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.28" class="v0_35_28">28</span>Isaac lived to be a hundred and eighty years old </span><span class="v0_35_29"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.29" class="v0_35_29">29</span>and died at a ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.18: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Benoni: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “son of my sorrow.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.18: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Benjamin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “son who will be fortunate.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.22: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and was furious; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew does not have these words.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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