Genesis 35:11 - Prayer Tents

Jacob Moves to Bethel

35Later, God told Jacob, "Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."H430H559H3290H6965H5927H1008H3427H6213H4196H410H7200H1272H6440H6215H251

2Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.H3290H559H1004H5493H5236H430H8432H2891H2498H8071

3Then let's get up and go to Bethel, where I'll build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who was with me on the road, wherever I went."H6965H5927H1008H6213H4196H410H6030H3117H6869H1870H1980

4So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem.H5414H3290H5236H430H3027H5141H241H3290H2934H424H7927

5As they set out on their journey, because the cities around them feared God, they did not pursue Jacob's sons.H5265H2847H430H5892H5439H7291H310H1121H3290

6Eventually, Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz (also called Beth-el) in the territory of Canaan.H3290H935H3870H776H3667H1008H5971

7He built an altar there to God and named the place ElBeth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother.H1129H4196H7121H4725H416H430H1540H1272H6440H251

8Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named "Weeping Oak".H1683H7259H3243H4191H6912H1008H437H8034H7121H439

God Appears Again to Jacob

9Later, God appeared to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-Aram and blessed him.H430H7200H3290H935H6307H1288

10Then God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel." So God called his name IsraelH430H559H8034H3290H8034H7121H3290H3478H8034H7121H8034H3478

11and also said to him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation - in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you - they'll emerge from your own loins!H430H559H410H7706H6509H7235H1471H6951H1471H4428H3318H2504

12Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants after you I'm giving the land to you!"H776H5414H85H3327H5414H2233H310H5414H776

13After this, God ascended from the place where he had been speaking to him.H430H5927H4725H1696

14Jacob erected a pillar of stone at that very place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering over it, anointed it with oil,H3290H5324H4676H4725H1696H4678H68H5258H5262H3332H8081

15and named the place where God had spoken to him Beth-el.H3290H7121H8034H4725H430H1696H1008

Rachel Dies in Childbirth

16Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.H5265H1008H5750H3530H776H935H672H7354H3205H7185H3205

17While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, "Don't fear! You're going to have another son."H7185H3205H3205H559H3372H1121

18As her soul was beginning to leave as she was dying, she called his name Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.H5315H3318H4191H7121H8034H1126H1H7121H1144

19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.H7354H4191H6912H1870H672H1035

20Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar over Rachel's grave is there to this day.H3290H5324H4676H6900H4678H7354H6900H3117

Jacob Settles Near Migdal Eder

21Jacob continued his travels, and eventually pitched his tent facing Migdal Eder.H3478H5265H5186H168H1973H4026H4029

22But while Israel lived in that land, Reuben went in and had sexual relations with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.H3478H7931H776H7205H3212H7901H1090H1H6370H3478H8085H1121H3290H8147H6240

23Leah's sons were Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.H1121H3812H7205H3290H1060H8095H3878H3063H3485H2074

24Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.H1121H7354H3130H1144

25Rachel's servant Bilhah's sons were Dan and Naphtali.H1121H1090H7354H8198H1835H5321

26Leah's servant Zilpah's sons were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him while he lived in Paddan-Aram.H1121H2153H3812H8198H1410H836H1121H3290H3205H6307

The Death of Isaac

27So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.H3290H935H3327H1H4471H7153H2275H85H3327H1481

28Isaac had lived a total of 180 yearsH3117H3327H3967H8141H8084H8141

29when he died and was gathered to his ancestors at a ripe old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.H3327H1478H4191H622H5971H2205H7649H3117H1121H6215H3290H6912