Genesis 35

About Genesis Genesis tells of creation, the first sin, the flood, and God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.SelectedGenesis 35:1Ask

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:SelectedGenesis 35:2Ask

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.SelectedGenesis 35:3Ask

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.SelectedGenesis 35:4Ask

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.SelectedGenesis 35:5Ask

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.SelectedGenesis 35:6Ask

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.SelectedGenesis 35:7Ask

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.SelectedGenesis 35:8Ask

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.SelectedGenesis 35:9Ask

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.SelectedGenesis 35:10Ask

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;SelectedGenesis 35:11Ask

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.SelectedGenesis 35:12Ask

And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.SelectedGenesis 35:13Ask

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.SelectedGenesis 35:14Ask

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.SelectedGenesis 35:15Ask

And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.SelectedGenesis 35:16Ask

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.SelectedGenesis 35:17Ask

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.SelectedGenesis 35:18Ask

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.SelectedGenesis 35:19Ask

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.SelectedGenesis 35:20Ask

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.SelectedGenesis 35:21Ask

And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:SelectedGenesis 35:22Ask

The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:SelectedGenesis 35:23Ask

The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:SelectedGenesis 35:24Ask

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:SelectedGenesis 35:25Ask

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.SelectedGenesis 35:26Ask

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.SelectedGenesis 35:27Ask

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.SelectedGenesis 35:28Ask

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.SelectedGenesis 35:29Ask

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