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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/35.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jacob’s Return 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, “Get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled 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 told everyone in his household, “Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We are now going to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who answered my prayers when I was in distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob’s family.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel) in Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jacob built an altar there and named the place El-bethel (which means “God of Bethel”), because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Soon after this, Rebekah’s old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”).</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>saying, “Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. From now on your name will be Israel.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> So God renamed him Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then God said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Be fruitful and multiply. You will become a great nation, even many nations. Kings will be among your descendants! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I will give you the land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac. Yes, I will give it to you and 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 the place where he had spoken to Jacob.</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 to mark the place where God had spoken to him. Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Jacob named the place Bethel (which means “house of God”), because God had spoken to him there.</p><p class="hdg">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>Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan moved on toward Ephrath. But Rachel went into labor while they were still some distance away. Her labor pains were intense. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, “Don’t be afraid—you have another son!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means “son of my sorrow”). The baby’s father, however, called him Benjamin (which means “son of my right hand”). <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>Jacob set up a stone monument over Rachel’s grave, and it can be seen there to this day.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Jacob<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> traveled on and camped beyond Migdal-eder. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it.</p><p class="reg">These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:</p><p class="b"/><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob’s oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.</p><p class="m">These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Isaac lived for 180 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 at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">35:10 </span><span class="it">Jacob</span><span class="ft"> sounds like the Hebrew words for “heel” and “deceiver.” </span><span class="it">Israel</span><span class="ft"> means “God fights.”</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">35:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Israel;</span><span class="ft"> also in 35:22a. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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