{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis", "chapter": 35 }, "data": { "n": 35, "bookSlug": "genesis", "bookCode": "GEN", "refId": "", "title": "Jacob returns to Bethel + the deaths of Rachel (bearing Benjamin) and Isaac", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-35:1", "verseRef": "Gen.35.1", "text": "And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-35:2", "verseRef": "Gen.35.2", "text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-35:3", "verseRef": "Gen.35.3", "text": "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." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-35:4", "verseRef": "Gen.35.4", "text": "And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-35:5", "verseRef": "Gen.35.5", "text": "And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-35:6", "verseRef": "Gen.35.6", "text": "So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-35:7", "verseRef": "Gen.35.7", "text": "And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-35:8", "verseRef": "Gen.35.8", "text": "And Deborah Rebekah`s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-35:9", "verseRef": "Gen.35.9", "text": "And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-35:10", "verseRef": "Gen.35.10", "text": "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." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-35:11", "verseRef": "Gen.35.11", "text": "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;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-35:12", "verseRef": "Gen.35.12", "text": "and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-35:13", "verseRef": "Gen.35.13", "text": "And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-35:14", "verseRef": "Gen.35.14", "text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-35:15", "verseRef": "Gen.35.15", "text": "And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-35:16", "verseRef": "Gen.35.16", "text": "And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-35:17", "verseRef": "Gen.35.17", "text": "And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-35:18", "verseRef": "Gen.35.18", "text": "And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-35:19", "verseRef": "Gen.35.19", "text": "And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem)." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-35:20", "verseRef": "Gen.35.20", "text": "And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel`s grave unto this day." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-35:21", "verseRef": "Gen.35.21", "text": "And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-35:22", "verseRef": "Gen.35.22", "text": "And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt 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:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-35:23", "verseRef": "Gen.35.23", "text": "The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob`s first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-35:24", "verseRef": "Gen.35.24", "text": "the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-35:25", "verseRef": "Gen.35.25", "text": "and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel`s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-35:26", "verseRef": "Gen.35.26", "text": "and the sons of Zilpah, Leah`s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-35:27", "verseRef": "Gen.35.27", "text": "And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-35:28", "verseRef": "Gen.35.28", "text": "And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-35:29", "verseRef": "Gen.35.29", "text": "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/35", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }