nsb - Genesis:35

nsb@Genesis:35:1 @ God said to Jacob: »Go to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar to God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.«

nsb@Genesis:35:2 @ Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: »Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.

nsb@Genesis:35:3 @ »After that let us go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was troubled and who has been with me wherever I have gone.«

nsb@Genesis:35:4 @ So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings. He buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

nsb@Genesis:35:5 @ Jacob and his family traveled through Canaan. God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.

nsb@Genesis:35:6 @ Finally, they reached Bethel, also known as Luz.

nsb@Genesis:35:7 @ Jacob built an altar there and called it God of Bethel. That was the place where God appeared to him when he was running from Esau.

nsb@Genesis:35:8 @ Deborah died. She was the servant who cared for Rebekah from childhood. She was buried near Bethel, under the holy tree. They named it Allon-bacuth.

nsb@Genesis:35:9 @ God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram. He blessed him.

nsb@Genesis:35:10 @ God said to him: »Your name is Jacob. You shall no longer be called Jacob. Israel shall be your name.« Thus He called him Israel.

nsb@Genesis:35:11 @ God also said: »I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. Kings shall come forth from you.

nsb@Genesis:35:12 @ »The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. I will give the land to your descendants after you.«

nsb@Genesis:35:13 @ Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.

nsb@Genesis:35:14 @ So Jacob set up a memorial, a stone marker, to mark the place where God had spoken with him. He poured a wine offering and olive oil on it.

nsb@Genesis:35:15 @ Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

nsb@Genesis:35:16 @ After that they moved from Bethel. When there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had severe labor pains.

nsb@Genesis:35:17 @ When one of her pains hit, the midwife said: »Do not be afraid. You have another son!«

nsb@Genesis:35:18 @ Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:35:19 @ Rachel died and was buried on the way to Bethlehem.

nsb@Genesis:35:20 @ Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachels grave today.

nsb@Genesis:35:21 @ Israel moved on again. He pitched his tent by the tower of Eder.

nsb@Genesis:35:22 @ While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his fathers concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

nsb@Genesis:35:23 @ The sons of Leah were Jacobs firstborn Reuben, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

nsb@Genesis:35:24 @ The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:35:25 @ The sons of Rachels slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

nsb@Genesis:35:26 @ The sons of Leahs slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacobs sons, who were born in Paddan-aram.

nsb@Genesis:35:27 @ Jacob came home to his father Isaac, to Mamres city, Kiriath-arba. Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while.

nsb@Genesis:35:28 @ Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old.

nsb@Genesis:35:29 @ Isaac took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.