{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/genesis/35","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:08:06.641Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":35,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":34,"nextChapter":36,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"God said to Jacob, |Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.|"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, |Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"God said to him, |Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.| He named him Israel."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"God said to him, |I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.|"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him |Bethel.|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, |Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son.|"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 35 (WEB)","markdown":"[Genesis 35](https://primebible.com/web/genesis/35)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/genesis/35 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}