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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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Jacob Returns to 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 told Jacob, “Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.2" class="v0_35_2">2</span>Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_35_2">Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes. </span><span class="v0_35_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.3" class="v0_35_3">3</span>Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.4" class="v0_35_4">4</span>So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and he buried them under 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>While Jacob and his family were traveling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them. </span><span class="v0_35_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.6" class="v0_35_6">6</span>Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz. </span><span class="v0_35_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.7" class="v0_35_7">7</span>Jacob built an altar there and called it “God of Bethel,” because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau. </span><span class="v0_35_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.8" class="v0_35_8">8</span>While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it “Weeping Oak.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">God Blesses Jacob at Bethel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.9-Gen.35.11" class="v0_35_9">9-11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.9-Gen.35.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.9-Gen.35.11!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_35_9">I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.9-Gen.35.11!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be 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 that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.13" class="v0_35_13">13</span>After God had gone, </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> Jacob set up a large rock, so that he would remember what had happened there. Then he poured wine and olive oil on the rock to show that it was dedicated to God, </span><span class="v0_35_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.15" class="v0_35_15">15</span>and he named the place Bethel.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s1">Benjamin Is Born</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 had left Bethel and were still a long way from Ephrath, when the time came for Rachel's baby to be born. </span><span class="v0_35_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.17" class="v0_35_17">17</span>She was having a rough time, but the woman who was helping her said, “Don't worry! It's a boy.” </span><span class="v0_35_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.18" class="v0_35_18">18</span>Rachel was at the point of death, and right before dying, she said, “I'll name him Benoni.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> But Jacob called 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>Rachel was buried beside the road to Ephrath, which is also called Bethlehem. </span><span class="v0_35_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.20" class="v0_35_20">20</span>Jacob set up a tombstone over her grave, and it is still there. </span><span class="v0_35_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.21" class="v0_35_21">21</span>Jacob, also known as Israel, traveled to the south of Eder Tower, where he set up camp.</span></p><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> During their time there, Jacob's oldest son Reuben slept with Bilhah, who was one of Jacob's other wives.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> And Jacob found out about it.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jacob's Twelve Sons</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.23-Gen.35.26" class="v0_35_23">23-26</span>Jacob had twelve sons while living in northern Syria.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.35.23-Gen.35.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> His first-born Reuben was the son of Leah, who later gave birth to Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Leah's servant Zilpah had two sons: Gad and Asher.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_35_23">Jacob and his wife Rachel had Joseph and Benjamin. Rachel's servant woman Bilhah had two more sons: Dan and Naphtali.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Isaac Dies</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 Hebron, also called Mamre or Kiriath-Arba, where Isaac's father Abraham had lived as a foreigner. </span><span class="v0_35_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.35.28-Gen.35.29" class="v0_35_28">28-29</span>Isaac died at the ripe old age of 180, then 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">35.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">earrings: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">These would have had symbols of foreign gods on them.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Deborah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 24.59 and the note there.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.9-11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 32.28.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Bethel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 28.19.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Benoni: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Benoni” means “Son of my Sorrow.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Benjamin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Benjamin” can mean “Son at my Right Side” (the place of power).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">other wives: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 22.24. Bilhah had been Rachel's servant woman (see 29.28-30).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.23-26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">northern Syria: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 24.10.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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