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Genesis 35 Darby Translation

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  • 1890
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1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; 3 and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went. 4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem. 5 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. 6 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. 11 And God said to him, I am the Almighty God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins. 12 And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering, and poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el. 16 And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing. 17 And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee. 18 And it came to pass as her soul was departing — for she died — that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder. 22 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 of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben — Jacob's firstborn — and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram. 27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre — to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac. 28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. 29 And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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  • Benjamin

    The youngest son

    Jacob's youngest, born as Rachel died giving him life.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 35:16–24; 49:27

  • Deborah

    Rebekah's nurse

    Rebekah's nurse, who died and was buried under the oak below Bethel, which Jacob named Allon-bachuth.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 35:8

  • Jacob

    Father of the tribes

    He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49

  • Rachel

    Matriarch, mother of Joseph

    Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who died in childbirth.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-35

  • Reuben

    The firstborn son

    Jacob's firstborn, who forfeited his standing by a grave offense.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 29:32; 35:22; 49:3–4

Cross references (29)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Genesis 31:13; Hosea 12:4; Psalm 91:15; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 35:7
  2. 2 Exodus 19:14; Exodus 19:10; Ezekiel 18:31; James 4:8; Hebrews 10:22
  3. 3 Isaiah 43:2; Genesis 32:7; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 31:42; Proverbs 3:6
  4. 4 Judges 9:6; Isaiah 30:22; Exodus 32:20; Judges 8:24–27; Exodus 32:2–4
  5. 5 Exodus 23:27; 2 Chronicles 17:10; Psalm 14:5; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 2:9–11
  6. 6 Genesis 28:19; Genesis 28:22; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 48:3; Judges 1:22–26
  7. 7 Genesis 28:13; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 35:3; Ezekiel 48:35; Genesis 28:19
  8. 8 Genesis 24:59; 1 Samuel 31:13; Judges 2:1; Judges 2:5
  9. 9 Genesis 26:2; Genesis 18:1; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 48:3–4
  10. 10 Genesis 17:5; Genesis 32:27–28; Genesis 17:15; 1 Kings 18:31; 2 Kings 17:34
  11. 11 Genesis 17:1; Genesis 9:1; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 17:5–7; Exodus 6:3
  12. 12 Genesis 12:7; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 26:3–4; Genesis 48:4; Genesis 13:14–17
  13. 13 Genesis 17:22; Genesis 18:33; Genesis 11:5; Judges 6:21; Judges 13:20
  14. 14 Genesis 28:18–19; Genesis 35:20; Genesis 31:45; Exodus 17:15; 1 Samuel 7:12
  15. 15 Genesis 28:19
  16. 16 Micah 5:2; Genesis 48:7; 1 Chronicles 2:19; 2 Kings 5:19; Ruth 1:2
  17. 17 Genesis 30:24; 1 Samuel 4:19–21
  18. 18 1 Chronicles 4:9; Luke 23:46; 1 Samuel 4:20–21; Acts 7:59; Luke 12:20
  19. 19 Micah 5:2; Genesis 48:7; Ruth 1:2; Ruth 4:11; Matthew 2:6
  20. 20 1 Samuel 10:2; 2 Samuel 18:17–18; Genesis 35:14; Genesis 35:9
  21. 21 Micah 4:8; Luke 2:8
  22. 22 1 Chronicles 5:1; Leviticus 18:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Samuel 16:21–22; 2 Samuel 20:3
  23. 23 Genesis 30:18–20; Genesis 46:8–15; Genesis 29:32–35; Genesis 33:2; Exodus 1:2–4
  24. 24 Genesis 30:22–24; Genesis 46:19–22; Genesis 35:16–18
  25. 25 Genesis 30:4–8; Genesis 37:2; Genesis 46:23–25
  26. 26 Genesis 35:18; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 46:16–18; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 30:9–13
  27. 27 Genesis 13:18; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 18:1; Joshua 15:13; Genesis 23:2
  28. 28 Genesis 25:7; Genesis 50:26; Genesis 47:28
  29. 29 Genesis 15:15; Genesis 49:33; Genesis 49:31; Genesis 25:7–9; Job 5:26

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 35:22 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book I, Chapters XVIII–XIX)

    … connection with which the mystery of the passion of the defect occurred, from which passion they maintain that all things visible were framed, they assert that is to be found strikingly and manifestly everywhere [in Scripture]. For they declare that the twelve sons of Jacob, from whom also sprung twelve tribes,-- the breastplate of the high priest, which bore twelve …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 35:10 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon LXXII)

    So then that Angel, who is understood to be the Lord Jesus, saith to Jacob, "Thou shalt not be any more called Jacob, but Israel shall thy name be," which is by interpretation, "Seeing God." After this He touched the sinew of his thigh, the broad part, that is, of the thigh, and it dried up; and Jacob became lame.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 35:19 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily IX)

    Rachel was the mother of Benjamin, and on his death, they buried her in the horse-course that was near this place. The tomb then being near, and the portion pertaining unto Benjamin her infant (for Rama was of the tribe of Benjamin), from the head of the tribe first, and next from the place of her sepulture, He naturally denominates …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)