# Genesis 35

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/35

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. God said to Jacob, "Rise, go up to Bethel, and settle there; build an altar there to God who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of Esau your brother."
2. Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Remove the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments."
3. Let us rise and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way that I went.
4. They gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands and the earrings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that stood by Shechem.
5. They set out, and a terror of God fell upon the cities that surrounded them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6. Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people who were with him.
7. He built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he fled from before his brother.
8. Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried beneath Bethel under the oak, and he called its name Allon-bachuth.
9. God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Padan-aram and blessed him.
10. God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." And he named him Israel.
11. God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and increase. A nation and an assembly of nations will arise from you, and kings will come forth from your loins."
12. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.
13. God ascended from above him in the place where he spoke with him.
14. Jacob erected a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a stone pillar. He poured a drink offering over it and oil upon it.
15. Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him there Bethel.
16. They set out from Bethel, and still a short distance remained to reach Ephrath when Rachel gave birth and labored hard in her childbirth.
17. And it came to pass, as her labor grew grievous in her giving birth, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for this too is a son for you."
18. It happened, as her soul was departing—for she died—that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
19. Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20. Jacob erected a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21. Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22. Israel was dwelling in that land when Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard it. Now Jacob's sons were twelve.
23. Leah's sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. Rachel's sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
25. The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.
26. The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, born to him in Paddan-aram.
27. Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, to Kiriath-arba—which is Hebron—where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28. Isaac lived to the age of one hundred eighty years.
29. Isaac breathed his last and died, and joined his kin as an old man sated with days, and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 34](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/34.md)
[Genesis 36](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/36.md)

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