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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/genesis/35.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jacob Returns to Bethel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="El Bethel means God of Bethel.">a</a></sup></span> because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Allon Bakuth means oak of weeping.">b</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verse 26">c</a></sup></span> God appeared to him again and blessed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he deceives.">d</a></sup></span> but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Israel probably means he struggles with God.">e</a></sup></span> ” So he named him Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And God said to him, “I am God Almighty <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew El-Shaddai">f</a></sup></span> ; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Bethel means house of God.">g</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="sectionhead">The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ben-Oni means son of my trouble.">h</a></sup></span> But his father named him Benjamin. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Benjamin means son of my right hand.">i</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.</p><p class="introduction">Jacob had twelve sons:</p> <div class="outlinelist"><p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sons of Leah:</p><p class="item2">Reuben the firstborn of Jacob,</p><p class="item2">Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The sons of Rachel:</p><p class="item2">Joseph and Benjamin.</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The sons of Rachel’s servant Bilhah:</p><p class="item2">Dan and Naphtali.</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah:</p><p class="item2">Gad and Asher.</p></div><p class="pconclusion">These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>El Bethel</i> means <i>God of Bethel.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Allon Bakuth</i> means <i>oak of weeping.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verse 26</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Jacob</i> means <i>he grasps the heel</i>, a Hebrew idiom for <i>he deceives</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Israel</i> probably means <i>he struggles with God.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>El-Shaddai</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Bethel</i> means <i>house of God.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Ben-Oni</i> means <i>son of my trouble.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Benjamin</i> means <i>son of my right hand.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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