Genesis 35 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" 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. "

" 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: "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people "

" 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. "

" But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. "

" And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed "

" 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. "

" 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; "

" 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. "

" And God went up from him in the place where he talked "

" 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 "

" And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. "

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

" And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son "

" 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. "

Genesis 35:18 depicts Rachel's final moments as she names her newborn son Benoni, meaning "son of my sorrow," before passing away. Jacob, his father, renames …

" And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. "

" And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. "

" And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. "

" 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: "

" The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: "

" The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: "

" And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: "

" And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. "

" And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. "

" And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. "

" 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 "