1 Interea locutus est Deus ad Jacob: Surge, et ascende Bethel, et habita ibi, facque altare Deo qui apparuit tibi quando fugiebas Esau fratrem tuum. 2 Jacob vero convocata omni domo sua, ait: Abjicite deos alienos qui in medio vestri sunt, et mundamini, ac mutate vestimenta vestra. 3 Surgite, et ascendamus in Bethel, ut faciamus ibi altare Deo: qui exaudivit me in die tribulationis meæ, et socius fuit itineris mei. 4 Dederunt ergo ei omnes deos alienos quos habebant, et inaures quæ erant in auribus eorum: at ille infodit ea subter terebinthum, quæ est post urbem Sichem. 5 Cumque profecti essent, terror Dei invasit omnes per circuitum civitates, et non sunt ausi persequi recedentes. 6 Venit igitur Jacob Luzam, quæ est in terra Chanaan, cognomento Bethel: ipse et omnis populus cum eo. 7 Ædificavitque ibi altare, et appellavit nomen loci illius, Domus Dei: ibi enim apparuit ei Deus cum fugeret fratrem suum. 8 Eodem tempore mortua est Debora nutrix Rebeccæ, et sepulta est ad radices Bethel subter quercum: vocatumque est nomen loci illius, Quercus fletus. 9 Apparuit autem iterum Deus Jacob postquam reversus est de Mesopotamia Syriæ, benedixitque ei 10 dicens: Non vocaberis ultra Jacob, sed Israël erit nomen tuum. Et appellavit eum Israël, 11 dixitque ei: Ego Deus omnipotens: cresce, et multiplicare: gentes et populi nationum ex te erunt, reges de lumbis tuis egredientur, 12 terramque quam dedi Abraham et Isaac, dabo tibi et semini tuo post te. 13 Et recessit ab eo. 14 Ille vero erexit titulum lapideum in loco quo locutus fuerat ei Deus: libans super eum libamina, et effundens oleum: 15 vocansque nomen loci illius Bethel. 16 Egressus autem inde, venit verno tempore ad terram quæ ducit Ephratam: in qua cum parturiret Rachel, 17 ob difficultatem partus periclitari cœpit. Dixitque ei obstetrix: Noli timere, quia et hunc habebis filium. 18 Egrediente autem anima præ dolore, et imminente jam morte, vocavit nomen filii sui Benomi, id est, Filius doloris mei: pater vero appellavit eum Benjamin, id est, Filius dextræ. 19 Mortua est ergo Rachel, et sepulta est in via quæ ducit Ephratam, hæc est Bethlehem. 20 Erexitque Jacob titulum super sepulchrum ejus: hic est titulus monumenti Rachel, usque in præsentem diem. 21 Egressus inde, fixit tabernaculum trans Turrem gregis. 22 Cumque habitaret in illa regione, abiit Ruben, et dormivit cum Bala concubina patris sui: quod illum minime latuit. Erant autem filii Jacob duodecim. 23 Filii Liæ: primogenitus Ruben, et Simeon, et Levi, et Judas, et Issachar, et Zabulon. 24 Filii Rachel: Joseph et Benjamin. 25 Filii Balæ ancillæ Rachelis: Dan et Nephthali. 26 Filii Zelphæ ancillæ Liæ: Gad et Aser: hi sunt filii Jacob, qui nati sunt ei in Mesopotamia Syriæ. 27 Venit etiam ad Isaac patrem suum in Mambre, civitatem Arbee, hæc est Hebron, in qua peregrinatus est Abraham et Isaac. 28 Et completi sunt dies Isaac centum octoginta annorum. 29 Consumptusque ætate mortuus est: et appositus est populo suo senex et plenus dierum: et sepelierunt eum Esau et Jacob filii sui.
Genesis 35 Clementine Vulgate
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Benjamin
Jacob's youngest, born as Rachel died giving him life.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 35:16–24; 49:27
Deborah
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
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
Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who died in childbirth.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-35
Reuben
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)
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- 1 Genesis 31:13; Hosea 12:4; Psalm 91:15; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 35:7
- 2 Exodus 19:14; Exodus 19:10; Ezekiel 18:31; James 4:8; Hebrews 10:22
- 3 Isaiah 43:2; Genesis 32:7; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 31:42; Proverbs 3:6
- 4 Judges 9:6; Isaiah 30:22; Exodus 32:20; Judges 8:24–27; Exodus 32:2–4
- 5 Exodus 23:27; 2 Chronicles 17:10; Psalm 14:5; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 2:9–11
- 6 Genesis 28:19; Genesis 28:22; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 48:3; Judges 1:22–26
- 7 Genesis 28:13; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 35:3; Ezekiel 48:35; Genesis 28:19
- 8 Genesis 24:59; 1 Samuel 31:13; Judges 2:1; Judges 2:5
- 9 Genesis 26:2; Genesis 18:1; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 48:3–4
- 10 Genesis 17:5; Genesis 32:27–28; Genesis 17:15; 1 Kings 18:31; 2 Kings 17:34
- 11 Genesis 17:1; Genesis 9:1; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 17:5–7; Exodus 6:3
- 12 Genesis 12:7; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 26:3–4; Genesis 48:4; Genesis 13:14–17
- 13 Genesis 17:22; Genesis 18:33; Genesis 11:5; Judges 6:21; Judges 13:20
- 14 Genesis 28:18–19; Genesis 35:20; Genesis 31:45; Exodus 17:15; 1 Samuel 7:12
- 15 Genesis 28:19
- 16 Micah 5:2; Genesis 48:7; 1 Chronicles 2:19; 2 Kings 5:19; Ruth 1:2
- 17 Genesis 30:24; 1 Samuel 4:19–21
- 18 1 Chronicles 4:9; Luke 23:46; 1 Samuel 4:20–21; Acts 7:59; Luke 12:20
- 19 Micah 5:2; Genesis 48:7; Ruth 1:2; Ruth 4:11; Matthew 2:6
- 20 1 Samuel 10:2; 2 Samuel 18:17–18; Genesis 35:14; Genesis 35:9
- 21 Micah 4:8; Luke 2:8
- 22 1 Chronicles 5:1; Leviticus 18:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Samuel 16:21–22; 2 Samuel 20:3
- 23 Genesis 30:18–20; Genesis 46:8–15; Genesis 29:32–35; Genesis 33:2; Exodus 1:2–4
- 24 Genesis 30:22–24; Genesis 46:19–22; Genesis 35:16–18
- 25 Genesis 30:4–8; Genesis 37:2; Genesis 46:23–25
- 26 Genesis 35:18; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 46:16–18; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 30:9–13
- 27 Genesis 13:18; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 18:1; Joshua 15:13; Genesis 23:2
- 28 Genesis 25:7; Genesis 50:26; Genesis 47:28
- 29 Genesis 15:15; Genesis 49:33; Genesis 49:31; Genesis 25:7–9; Job 5:26
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… 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 …
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)
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)