<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000001">Genesis</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1001048">Chapter 35</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1001016">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1001078">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>The Patriarchs</em></p><p><em>Jacob or Israel</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001049">1</a>. AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001050">2</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001051">3</a>. And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001052">4</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001053">5</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001054">6</a>. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001055">7</a>. And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001056">8</a>. But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001057">9</a>. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001058">10</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001059">11</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001060">12</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001061">13</a>. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001062">14</a>. 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 thereon.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001063">15</a>. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001064">16</a>. And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001065">17</a>. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001066">18</a>. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001067">19</a>. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001068">20</a>. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001069">21</a>. And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001070">22</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001071">23</a>. The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001072">24</a>. The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001073">25</a>. And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001074">26</a>. And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001075">27</a>. And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001076">28</a>. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001077">29</a>. 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 him.</li>
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